Loving Fathers

As one would expect of an institution whose connivance at repeated and persistent child-raping has the full authority of the Saviour, the Church of Rome has bounced back with righteous rapidity from its little embarrassment in France. After an initial expression of shame and horror, evidently with a mental reservation, the Archbishop of Reims maintained, in line with the dictates of Mussolini's joke city-state, that the rules of the Church take precedence over the laws of those countries in which the Church operates and takes due advantage of the statutes of limitation. Although the French minister of the interior has attempted to persuade the Archbishop of the error of his ways, it remains as yet unclear whether the Saviour has informed His infallible messenger about any change of heart.