Pope porn
Priests do it Nuns do it They have a lot of fun doin' it Let's do it Let's watch porn [with apologies to Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen]
Pope Francis has recognised the almost inevitable: nuns and priests are human. And those that aren't taking out their frustrations on choir boys and orphans, are taking it out on themselves. While viewing pornography online, that is.
As if institutional child abuse wasn't enough, this is a problem of some gravity for the Catholic church. Honestly, I'd say it was waaaay the lesser of two evils, but ne'ermind.
The Catholic church requires that all clerics remain celibate - which is to abstain from sexual relations and marriage. Watching porn would breach these requirements.
Merlyn Thomas, BBC News
Okay, I have to admit Merl's lost me there. Can you even have a sexual relationship with your favoured hand? Just asking for a friend. (whistling)
It's not really relevant, but I can't help myself:
"The pure heart, the one that Jesus receives ever [sic] day, cannot receive this pornographic information," he said.
Merlyn Thomas, BBC News
Merlyn Thomas, or one of his cronies, has since amended the article to, among other things, correct that typo. If that were all, it wouldn't rate a mention. But, in reducing his only 233-word article down to a hardly-worth-bothering-with 143 words, the last four paragraphs—including the two that I quoted—were excised without mention.
Now, although stealthily removing or amending text that people may have quoted is the sort of thing that we have come to expect from the BBC, it's not the sort of thing that we should expect from the world's most trusted international news broadcaster
™. (angry)
Fortunately, the WayBack Machine's more trustworthy than BBC News. Tagged accordingly!