Thursday, April 29, 2010

Catholic Pressure Persuades Foreign Office to Suspend Diplomat for Memo Mocking Pope

The Telegraph (British) website reports today (April 29, 2010) that Anjoum Noonan, 31 --the diplomat who authorized a memo mocking the Pope -- has been suspended by the British Foreign Office, as a result of Catholics reacting with fury to its contents.

The offending memo -- titled "The Ideal Visit Would See..." -- suggested the Pope could launch his own range of condoms during his state visit in September, open an abortion clinic, bless a homosexual marriage, and announce the sacking of "dodgy" bishops in the wake of the child abuse scandal within the Catholic Church.

Noonan's suspension is reported in today's edition of the Catholic journal, "The Tablet."

Many high-ranking Catholics -- both in England and in the Vatican -- had put the Foreign Office under immense pressure in recent days to take severe disciplinary action against Noonan.

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