There have been two newsworthy events in the last couple of weeks.  One is the scandal within the Catholic Church, and the other is the death of John McCain.  One of those events, the death of John McCain, received far more media attention.

To be sure, the revelations of the child sexual abuse scandal of the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania certainly did receive some headlines in the so-called mainstream media.  It is hard to ignore a long cover-up within the church where it is reported that hundreds of priests sexually abused more than 1,000 victims, most of whom were minors.

This happened over a span of perhaps 7 decades.  It included the sexual abuse of little boys and girls, although it seems to have been more boys than girls.

Then there is Pope Francis.  I have never liked Pope Francis since right after the time he became Pope.  He has had a left-wing agenda.  He blathers on and on about social tolerance, environmentalism, wealth redistribution, and socialism.  He talks about these things more than he actually talks about, you know, Catholicism.  The few good things he has said are overshadowed by his seemingly communist agenda (and I try not to use that word lightly).  Overall, I have thought he is a hypocrite and a fraud.

Now, there are credible allegations that this scandal was known about at the top.  Pope Francis has personally been implicated, and he doesn’t seem to be denying the allegations.  I know this doesn’t automatically make him guilty, but you would think he would have something to say on the matter.

Pope Francis likely knew about what had happened, and he likely helped cover it up. Archbishop Theodore McCarrick has been implicated as one of the abusers, and he was sanctioned by the previous Pope, Benedict XVI.

According to the allegations made by Archbishop Viganò, “He [Pope Francis] knew from at least June 23, 2013 that McCarrick was a serial predator.  Although he knew that he was a corrupt man, he covered for him to the bitter end; indeed, he made McCarrick’s advice his own, which was certainly not inspired by sound intentions and for love of the Church.  It was only when he was forced by the report of the abuse of a minor, again on the basis of media attention, that he took action [regarding McCarrick] to save his image in the media.”

When Pope Francis said that we should be tolerant of homosexuals, most people didn’t realize that it included homosexuals who rape little boys.

The problem is that this is an explosive story that has not received the vast media attention that it likely deserves.  If you are just watching the mainstream media, you may not have heard about these credible allegations against Pope Francis.

Instead, we got to hear over a week’s coverage on the death of the maverick, John McCain. McCain was a maverick (according to the establishment) because he crossed party lines.  In other words, he supported all of the worst policies of both major parties.  Most importantly, he could be counted on to support any war, regardless of the party in power in the White House.

McCain is regarded as a war hero because he dropped bombs on innocent people in Vietnam.  He was captured and supposedly tortured, although there are many disputes about what actually happened.

There is one thing that isn’t in dispute though, and that is that McCain spent the rest of his life shilling for wars to expand the U.S. empire overseas.  Instead of talking about the brutality of war and spreading a message of not putting others through the same pain, he chose the opposite path.  Since he got to fight and suffer through war, he was quick to make sure that others would suffer as well.

McCain was one of the worst elements of society.  He was evil in almost every way.  But if you watched the establishment media last week, you would never know it. If you believe their words, then McCain was a hero and a great man of principle.

Conservatives like to refer to the mainstream media as the liberal media.  This is obviously not a reference to classical liberalism. Still, it is even hard to call it the left-wing media.  It is the establishment media that will shill for big government at every turn. You must worship the state.

Fox News was, of course, paying homage to McCain.  But all of the other networks were doing the same.  They are all in agreement on this point – that John McCain was a great man.  For that, we can be sure that the opposite is true.

The establishment media can’t be too far to the left because they are paying homage to a war criminal. There are a few leftists out there who referred to McCain as the war hawk that we was.  But there were few of them in the last week.  It seems to be only some libertarians and a handful of hardcore leftists who are willing to tell the truth about McCain at this point.

Most of the leftists support McCain now because him and Trump were enemies.  They care more about taking down Trump than they do about war.

Meanwhile, during this same time, there was little said about the allegations against Pope Francis?  Why would that be?

It is because the establishment media loves Pope Francis.  He is their favorite Pope because he is a defender of the state in all its forms.  He wants more centralization and more socialism.  Therefore, the media would rather keep these allegations (against Francis) quiet if they can.  They will only address it if it becomes too explosive to ignore.

So that is the world we are living in today.  The media pays homage to the war criminal, while they ignore these explosive allegations of Pope Francis helping out child rapists.  It is a good thing we have the Internet.