Congratulations, Hank! You’ve managed to leave a comment that’s almost as illogical and self-serving as Waters’ original article. “Say O’Brien is publically against homosexuality full stop because of church doctrine, and so his actions make him a hypocrite, what the feck is that to newspapers like the observer anyway?” Presumably it matters to newspapers because the Catholic Church is a public institution that has always sought to maximise its power in whatever sphere it operates in, and because it demands that its followers adhere to that doctrine. If an extremely powerful global institution excoriates a particular practise, and one of its hierarchy is then found to have indulged in that practise (which also involves the abuse of his power), then of course it’s in the public interest.
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