I've railed in the past about being open-minded about religious faith, but for God's sake I cannot be open minded about this. My choice quote:

Girotti, who heads the Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican body that issues decisions on matters of conscience and grants absolutions told the paper that whilst sin used to concern the individual mostly, today it had a mainly a social resonance, due to the phenomenon of globalization.

Isn't just the idea of the bureacractic nightmare that must be the Vatican deeply disturbing / amusing? A bustling office that "issues decisions on matters of conscience and grants absolution"? Ridiculous!