Vatican misdirection, the relevance of the pope, Iraq and Sudan [John Allen]

[Catholic_Press]

Magicians understand that playing on an audience’s expectations is the heart of making a trick work. When people think they know what’s going to happen, where their attention ought to be focused, a little misdirection is usually all it takes.

Making sense of current events, just like catching on to a trick, has a lot to do with seeing past expectations. When a priori assumptions cloud one’s perceptions, it’s easy to miss what actually happens.

The past week brought two good examples of misdirection, albeit largely unintentional, vis-à-vis the Vatican. Diagnosing how the trick was pulled is important to an accurate understanding of what’s going on.

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[Petergee]

So when the secular media, as usual, gets two stories about the Church/Pope/Vatican hopelessly wrong because of the media’s pre-conceived anti-Catholic agendas, Mr Allen says these are two cases of “Vatican misdirection” pulling magician’s sleight of hand to try to hide their real actions from the populace. Even by the NCReporter’s routine standard of blaming the Pope/Vatican for everything that’s wrong with the Church and the world, this hits a new low.