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REMEMBER Natalie Holloway, the teenager whose Aruban summer vacation apparently never ended, seeing as how she disappeared and no corpse was ever found?

And you know how people are constantly seeing the Blessed Virgin in everything from grease stains to slices of toast?

Okay… bear with us here… there is, Anorak’s Man in LA thinks, a connection.  And he’s about to reveal it.

Seems a Pennsylvania couple shot some underwater photographs when they were vacationing in Aruba.  Last October.

They didn’t notice it for six month, but after a close examination of the pictures, they saw what “may be Natalie.”

The picture’s reportedly been sent to the FBI.

The Big Cheese suspects the FBI will end up forwarding it to the News of the World or some similar rag where they can run the picture right next to the photo of a woman who was abducted by UFOs and implanted with multiple computer chips.

- RR

THE Catholic Church and the paedo priests continued: A glance at today’s Guardian brings a particularly crude but very relevant joke to mind:

Q. What are the similarities between a pint of Guinness and a Roman Catholic Priest?

A. Both are black with white collars.
If you get a bad one of either, you’ll have sore arse in the morning.

Devil In Vatican After Tour Of Pope’s German Retreat With H

Click on the link above to read The Guardian’s coverage of just one of the 700 recently revealed new cases of sex abuse involving Priests.

Already on St Patrick’s day in Armagh the Primate of All Ireland, Sean Brady, told the congregation in his cathedral that the clergy should admit “the full truth of our sinfulness“.

Brady is only one of dozens of Prelates bowing their heads to beg forgiveness in the Netherlands, Austria, Germany and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland and Italy.

The Midlands Prepares To Assassinate The Pope

It gets worse; there is now open rebellion actually happening in the churches.

The Guardian says: ‘The Bavarian spa town of Bad Tölz had just learned a terrible secret.

‘It had been reported that one of their curates was a convicted paedophile, Peter Hullermann. The curate who had officiated at the children’s mass. The one who had been with their sons and daughters the year before at a camp-site in the mountains over their medieval town.’

The Parish priest decided to tackle it head on:

In his sermon at the main mass last Sunday morning, he began with the parable of the prodigal son – and was stopped dead in mid-sentence.

“I cannot listen to that,” shouted a man who was soon to have been married by Hullerman. “You just cannot dodge the issue any longer,” he continued as other parishioners broke into applause and some began shouting “shut your mouth” at their parish priest.

This is an unprecedented hiatus for the Vatican. Millions are vocalising there despair and disappointment in their priests.

Cardinal Sean Brady Picks A Good St Patrick’s Day To Bury Bad News On The Paedo Priest

This is no longer a small aberration in a remote American parish or urban jungle, nor is it some Father Ted or drunken Father Jack being inappropriate in the boiler room of the church hall. It is not the (true) dirty joke where the Bishop of Argyll and the Highlands quit after it was revealed he was shagging his divorced housekeeper witless.

Pope Benedict XVI does not have the remedy available to his medieval fore-appointees:

In the good old days, heretics were burned at the stake and iffy priests were dispatched to rape, torture and then destroy Muslims or the Aztec and Incas Empires.

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The Sun’s banner headline today brands Jon Venables as “Evil”

What is not clear is why Jon Venables, 27, who who ten-years-old when in 1993 he killed two-year-old James Bulger along with his pal Robert Thompson, also ten, is particularly worthy of being evil today.

In Pictures: Inside James Bulger Killer Jon Venables’ Prison Cell

Even at the height of the grief and hysteria (yes. a lot of it was) over the dreadful murder,
Venables was regarded as the “lesser” of the two children involved.

James Bulger Case in pictures

Yesterday The Sun said the recalled from life licence Venables was whisked from a high security prison unit by (said to be) armed policeman who wanted to question him.

A day later:

“JAMES Bulger killer Jon Venables was back in his jail cell last night after being questioned by cops for 24 hours.

“They grilled him about child porn allegations before returning him to his high security prison at around 6am.”

Once Again Deep Throat whispers in a Sun ear:

“A source confirmed: “Venables is back behind bars. He was away from the prison for a whole 24 hours.

“He was brought back by the same armed team who took him away. He looked very tired and has stayed in his cell ever since.”

Venables is in an adult prison for the first time and had been recalled from life-licence for, as yet, unspecified reasons.

The Justice secretary Jack Straw has described the reason as “serious” but no more.

The Sun indicates it knows all and says:

“Child porn carries a term of up to ten years but, if convicted, Venables could face life for breaching his licence terms.”

Jon Venables the man on the way to becoming as hated as……………….

(You try filling tomorrow’s tabloid prejudiced weasel word)

James Bulger Case in pictures

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