Thompson complains about "useless" UK Catholic Communications Network

I hear him:

No, pollution is not a new 'deadly sin'

But the Church has only itself to blame, for it took until late morning today – more than 24 hours after the story broke – for the useless Catholic Communications Network (annual cost: £315,286) to issue a memo to journalists pointing out that the Vatican has NOT published a new list of seven deadly sins.

The statement adds: “This is not a new Vatican edict. The story originated from an interview that Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti gave to the L'Osservatore Romano in which he was questioned about new forms of social sins in this age of globalisation.

“Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti is not the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary; he is the regent (official). The Major Penitentiary is Cardinal James Francis Stafford.”

And, er, that’s it, apart from a copy of Mgr Girotti’s interview, which the CCN cannot even be bothered to translate into English. The memo has not even gone up on the CCN website. And this is what churchgoers are paying for when the plate goes round on “Communications Sunday”.

Let me get this straight: £315,286 a year?? That's slightly over $639,062!

I'd work for half that much and have at least twice as much to say on any given day. =)

I've been blogging a little over two years now, and after almost 2,800 posts, I've never heard of CCN before today.