Deleted entry

I recently broke a "cast iron rule" I made for myself when I first began blogging. I blogged on an issue directly related to work. That blog entry is gone. I removed it of my own volition.

However the issues raised by that blog remain valid. In that entry, I said that "the loony right can use the 'hermeneutic of rupture' just as effectively as the dissendent left". I characterised that argument as follows:

The Pope has done "a, b, and c", which shows that he is fallible and in error, therefore we will continue doing "x, y and z" despite what he says, because we are right and he is wrong.

I argued that

the Catholic Centre is between the Dissendent Left and the Traditionalist Right--ie. those Catholics who remain faithful to the teaching magisterium of the Bishops in communion with the Successor of Peter.

I remain of that opinion. But I apologise to all and sundry who felt that in my original (now deleted) entry I had calumnised them in any way. And I certainly retract any suggestion that I may have made of duplicity on the part of anyone involved in the original incident. I am sure all acted in good faith. I am still of the mind that the result was, however, regrettable.