That's not to downplay the massive flaws in the British press generally, or the Guardian in particular. But if there is one issue where Guardian (print edition anyway) readers probably don't need big signposts for suspicion it's on the theme "Catholic Church slides into mumbo-jumbo."
That was my take as well. The Guardian won't bother trying to argue the case cos there's no point arguing with superstitious nit-wits in the first place. So they just report it and leave the raised eyebrows unstated.
Plus, one of their senior commenters is Christine Odone, an ex-editor of the Catholic Herald newspaper, who is as prone to writing faith-based reality-challenged nonsense as any of them. keep to the Fen Causeway
