(AoftheAP) A source out of Rome tells AoftheA News that during Thursday’s pre-conclave meeting, the Church’s cardinals voted down a proposal to authorize the use of drones to identify and eliminate known liturgical abuses.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, was able to provide few details of the vote, but could confirm that the vote was a close one.
“There was impassioned debate,” the source revealed. “Cardinal Burke campaigned for their use, citing Just War Theory, canon law, and the history of the Crusades as justification for the practice. His PowerPoint presentation and video simulations, from what I was told, impressed a good number of the prelates.
Simulated drone strike on a papier-mâché puppet.
“Equally persuasive, though, was Cardinal Mahony, who feared that many of the churches in his former archdiocese would end up being targeted.”
At that point, the source said, the discussion turned to whether the drones should only be used against Call-to-Action gatherings. That was rejected, because most of their meetings take place in Episcopalian facilities, and some cardinals pointed out that attacks on their buildings would hamper ecumenism efforts.
Dang! You are hilarious!!!
larryd, if this was for real, we would probably lose half of our clergy in the US and most of the church buildings constructed since the close of the Vatican II council!
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There is ne’er an acceptable truce
with the liturgy’s rampant abuse.
My mechanical dove
bearing “death from above,”
Has you fit for symbolical noose!
But the RoboCop ground option is still on the table: “Your indult has been revoked! You have 15 seconds to comply….You have ten seconds to comply….”
I wish I could find something funny about drones. Alas, I cannot.
Larry, I have it from a reliable source that Mahony was afraid he would be a target.