Here We Go Again

All you who thought the Pope was cool 'cause he wore red Prada shoes have had reason lately to consider that you might be wrong.

Not cool for the Pope to reinstate an excommunicated bishop who denied the Holocaust ever happened.

Now word comes of Pope Benedict XVI elevating an Austrian clergyman to bishop, Gerhard Maria Wagner. Wagner opined in 2005 that Hurricane Katrina was God's retribution on New Orleans.

Said he, "It is surely not an accident that all five of New Orleans' abortion clinics, as well as nightclubs were destroyed," he wrote, adding: "It's not just any old city that has gone under, but the people's dream city with the 'best brothels and the most beautiful whores'."

First of all, how did he know New Orleans had the most beautiful whores? How did he collect the information for such a subjective statement?

Some other crazy shit he's said:

In 2001 he warned children against reading JK Rowling's novels about the boy wizard Harry Potter, describing them as spreading satanism.

In 2004 he said it was no coincidence that the Tsunami disaster had occurred at Christmas, inferring that it was punishment for "rich western tourists" who had "fled to poor Thailand".

And not so slowly we are headed back to the Middle Ages.