Minima Culpa

As befits a former Grand Inquisitor, the sixteenth Daddy Goodspeak emeritus has appended to his latest non-apology a three-page legal refutation of its basis. The ex-pope issued a letter in response to a report about the Church's peccadilloes in Munich while a certain Joseph Ratzinger was archbishop, and with characteristic humility asked forgiveness for the Church rather than for himself, using the Moral We to inculpate the anonymous collective rather than the specific sinner. The legal addendum, at least seventy-five per cent of whose authors believe in a morally supreme omniscient genocidal sky-daddy, disputed the report's findings on the grounds that it was insufficiently factual.