While it’s OK for everyone to have an opinion and express it, there’s nothing so pathetic as to watch the talking heads of the mainstream dino-media opinionate on anything to do with religion. By and large, they don’t go to church, have little regard for the Christian faith – especially Catholicism, think we’re all a bunch of unsophisticated lemmings without a brain or conscience, and have little understanding about how the Church in all its manifestations even function. Take the recent blatherings of many in the media following Pope Benedict’s announcement that he’s stepping down – Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey nails it:

This begins with a misconception of the papacy itself, and one that is both mystifying and dreadfully indicative of a lack of media interest in what the Catholic Church is really all about. Most commentators begin with the premise that Catholicism is whatever a Pope says it is, acting as a benevolent despot and rewriting Catholic doctrine at will.
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First, there aren’t two Catholic Churches. The parts function as a whole. The nuns (and the brothers, by the way, who get short shrift from E.J. and Kristof) providing aid are just as much a part of the Church as Catholic hospitals serving the poor in the US and around the world, the charities and schools, and the churches and their parishioners. The “all-male Vatican hierarchy” serve to organize the body of the Church to accomplish all of these wonderful deeds, either directly or (mostly) indirectly. We do this to put our faith into practice in the world, in order to create justice and freedom not just as an end unto themselves — worthy as they are — but so that all people can voluntarily choose the path of salvation based on the doctrine of the Catholic Church, which the hierarchy defends and evangelizes.

Men and women have distinct roles within the Church; that’s well known. The point of the Church isn’t to model diversity, although we most certainly do. It’s not to run hospitals and charities, although we pioneered both. It’s to spread the Gospel and save as many people for the kingdom to come based on the immutable Word of God.

I think the mainstream media should stick to the things they do best – for example, kissing Barack Obama’s behind and covering up his pathetic excuse for a Presidency – and keep their noses out of things they know nothing about. They just sound even more ignorant than they already are.