Continuing with my media watch theme following the Pope's death...
Now that the massive media outpouring outpouring of grief and respect following the Pope’s death some media commentators are turning to his other legacies, here's a sample:
In The Australian, Philip Adams says
"Now is the time to talk about the Pope and death, of his record on the life and death issues of life, from the Holocaust to AIDS, from the war in Iraq to the electric chair.”
Adams concludes that the Pope’s decision not to change his policy on the condom is the one bad decision, which eclipses all else, a “monstrous folly” which will follow the Pope to his grave. Anti Aids campaigners not surprisingly concur.
And in The Guardian, under the heading “The Pope has blood on his hands”, Terry Eagleton slams the Pope's authoritarian regime as "one of the greatest disasters for the Christian church since Charles Darwin"
And there’s a really interesting article by the San Franciso Chronicle’s religion writer, Don Lattin, on what it was like to cover the Pope as a journalist.
And of course there is commentary looking at what the new Pope should do better.
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