But one professional Catholic took it as an opportunity to make a cheap shot:
Yeah, well, @RorateCaeli , a period of silence from you would be welcome after your hissy fit as soon as the new Pope was announced.
New Catholic asks you to weigh in with Daily Telegraph Editor Tony Gallagher at tony.gallaghertelegraph.co.uk and let him know, charitably, what you think. He's also on Twitter @gallaghereditor.
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Nice to see Rorate being tough. They were disappointing me for a while. Guess the election shook out the cobwebs.
Couldn't agree more, beagle! My observation and reaction was the very same. Good for them that they grew teeth.
As far as Demon Thompson goes, he is not worth what is on the bottom of New Catholic's shoes. May God rebuke him for his absolutely uncharitable, inappropriate, unsolicited and whiny comment. Whine Whine Whine Cry Cry Cry Bitch Bitch Bitch because FAITHFUL Catholics are not afraid to report facts. If he was so sure of his own stance he would not fear the truth, but he makes it clear that he stands on sand. He is whiny, cowardly, a bully and a snipe.
If Thompson does not pull his head out of his own rectal cavity and soon, he may find himself, at the end of his journey, on the wrong side of the Gates of Hell.
I am very saddened to hear about New Catholic's mother, and I already had responded to his special request in her regard.
I won't bother contacting the Telegraph over this, not because it wasn't your typical low-class remark by the limp-wristed Mr Thompson, but because it is unworthy of comment...period. To call attention to it by objecting to it would give his infantile remark a dignity it hardly deserves.
Petulant remarks like his are common for teenagers...and for older people with certain "proclivities".
I was frankly shocked that even Damian could be like this that a successful “journalist” and editor of a respected Catholic publication would act in such a petulant and effeminate manner.
Shocked, I tell you!
Thompson better watch out, his antics are really tipping his hand about his private life. That was about as catty as you can be.
And now, he's trying to pretend he didn't know the reason for New Catholic's absence.
Oh dear Damian...that's at least 2 Our fathers and a Hail Mary in penance for that uncharitable outburst. Not very nice, and very undignified too.
maryclare :-)
He’s denying that he knew the reason for New Cath’s departure from the net.
Tancred, I think you should take Damien at his word. He only said what many of us were thinking who also knew nothing about New Catholic's situation. I'm a little surprised that Rorate Caeli would use this to launch an attack on Damien. But.. that's kinda what they did to the Holy Father, so I guess it aligns.
If Damian weren’t so habitually nasty on behalf of issues related to a sin we ought not to mention, I wouldn’t find him so hard to believe in this case and would be willing to credit him on his past good behavior.
But it would have been impossible for him not to know that New Catholic was retiring to care for his ailing mother.
Interesting that you also side with Damian’s whinging about what was just good journalism on the part of RC. Rorate’s account of how the Holy Father handled Summorum Pontificum in his Archdiocoese was 100% accurate.
"But it would have been impossible for him not to know that New Catholic was retiring to care for his ailing mother."
He has repeatedly said that the only post on RC he'd read, and the one to which he was replying, was "the Argentine" one, presumably the one with the report by the Argentine traditionalist who basically went for the papal jugular (and, via Rorate Caeli, sent shockwaves through the traditionalist Catholic blogworld). If that's the only post he had read, it would not be so difficult for Mr. Thompson to now have known about NC's mother.
In charity, we must give him the benefit of the doubt.
That’s not true. He’s cited Rorate on at least three or four occasions before. Unfortunately, Rorate took down the exchange where he was called on the carpet by one of the other Rorate moderators.
This is Damian Thompson.
The reason RC has taken down its post, with foul defamatory claims about me, is that I have managed to persuade him/her that I knew nothing about anyone's mother being ill. My tweet was a quote from Clement Attlee and reflected my anger at the Argentinian post, the only one I read on that site on this occasion. I still do not know who New Catholic is; I assumed that RC was a group blog. I would never exploit the illness of anyone's mother to score a point. I know I can be nasty in print, for which I'm sorry, but I don't recall writing anything as vicious as the things said about me by "Catholics" on traditionalists blogs.
I don’t I have seen anything quite as nasty as you have been on any blog of any kind.
Why hasn’t Rorate recanted then?
Simply because truth should never be recanted.
I know from my own experience with Thomson he is indeed a bully and has the manners of a spoilt little child.
Oh please. Rorate has hardly been the bastion of charity towards anyone who's not them. They're getting exactly what they deserve. They treat everyone around them with nastiness, disdain and contempt, then complain when someone calls them on it. Now, with their vitriol against the pope, they're completely unhinged.
As a friend noted after the papal election, 'I want to make some popcorn and watch these morally bankrupt reactionaries **** themselves.' She can pass it, because that's their dirty little secret: profess orthodoxy, lack integrity and morality and ANY iota of charity.
Frankly, Rorate gives traditionalists a bad name, and a friend has coined a better name for them: tradofascists. People who look down on the poor, the needy, the pastoral, anything good. That lot can go deal with their own issues, preferably outside the Church. If they went SSPX, my day would be made.
Oh, they’re fascist? I wasn’t aware of that. Do tell.
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