...and Zimbabwean Catholics put down the cross, for the axe

There. They said it themselves. It wuznt me. The Catholics have admitted it. They reckon the chaps behind the repression and the beatings in Zimbabwe are – they said it, not me – Catholics.
The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference says in a statement that the lot behind this mess is made up of “active members of the Parish and pastoral councils”.
Raises eerie images of hoardes of Catholics, roaming the ghettos of Harare, using those rosary chains to strangle and maim opposition protestors , doesn’t it? Scary thought!
Say the bishops: “Active members of our Parish and Pastoral Councils are prominent officials at all levels of the ruling (Zanu PF) party. They are all baptised, sit and pray and sing together in the same church, take part in the same celebration of the Eucharist, and partake of the same Body and Blood of Christ. While the next day, outside the church, a few steps away, Christian State Agents, policemen and soldiers assault and beat peaceful, unarmed demonstrators and torture detainees.”
Well…
The bishops say they’ve finally figured out the root cause of the Zimbo crisis - stumping all previous (secular?) attempts at analysing "The Zimbabwe Question".
“Our crisis is not only political and economic, but first and foremost a spiritual and moral crisis. As the young independent nation struggles to find its common national spirit, the people of Zimbabwe are reacting against the 'structures of sin' in our society. Pope John Paul II says that the ‘structures of sin’ are rooted in personal sin, and thus always linked to the concrete acts of individuals who introduce these structures, consolidate them and make them difficult to remove. And thus they grow stronger, spread, and become the source of other sins, and so influence people’s behaviour.”
Right padres, Like this clears things up for the rest of us…
Tend to your own sadistic flock!!