The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Wait…What??

**Posted by Buzzy Krumhunger** May 14, 2025 9:20 am

Former CBC News correspondent Neil Macdonald is in hot water for making disparaging comments about the funeral for Pope Francis. Big deal you might think, that’s just standard operating procedure for anyone at the CBC when mocking Christianity.
The kicker…Macdonald is married to former CBC and CTV correspondent Joyce Napier, the current Canadian ambassador to the Holy See, y’know, the Vatican.
I don’t know if you guys are history buffs or not but you might not remember Neil Macdonald was the older brother of some guy named Norm.
Interesting that this is not the first, admittedly tenuous Weekend Update connection that SNL has with the Vatican. Father Guido Sarducci was a frequent guest as gossip columnist for L’Osservatore Romano.

Last edited by Buzzy Krumhunger (May 14, 2025 9:23 am)

**Posted by Chrisphen** May 14, 2025 10:27 am

What did he say?

**Posted by RadioActive** May 14, 2025 11:43 am

Chrisphen wrote:
What did he say?

Most of this is behind a paywall, but you can get an idea of what happened here.

**Posted by Dial Twister** May 14, 2025 11:44 am

Where do we begin here? The OP doesn't give us any facts to hang our hats on, so it's difficult to know just how outraged we should all be.

Secondly, Neil is a former CBC employee, so there is no connection there.

Buzzy Krumhunger wrote:
Former CBC News correspondent Neil Macdonald is in hot water for making disparaging comments about the funeral for Pope Francis. Big deal you might think, that’s just standard operating procedure for anyone at the CBC when mocking Christianity.

Thirdly, Joyce is a former CBC and CTV employee, so there is no connection there either.

Buzzy Krumhunger wrote:
The kicker…Macdonald is married to former CBC and CTV correspondent Joyce Napier, the current Canadian ambassador to the Holy See, y’know, the Vatican.

Fourthly, whatever Neil's late brother may, or may not, have said about the Holy See, or Catholicism in general, is irrelevant to Neil.

Buzzy Krumhunger wrote:
I don’t know if you guys are history buffs or not but you might not remember Neil Macdonald was the older brother of some guy named Norm. Interesting that this is not the first, admittedly tenuous Weekend Update connection that SNL has with the Vatican.

Next?

**Posted by Binson Echorec** May 14, 2025 12:01 pm

^Yeah, I'm not sure what to derive from this either, especially this:

Buzzy Krumhunger wrote:
that’s just standard operating procedure for anyone at the CBC when mocking Christianity.

I can't say I've seen any news person mock a belief, let alone having it be part of some mandate.

**Posted by newsguy1** May 14, 2025 12:45 pm

I am sure the CBC news department has no agenda to mock Christianity.
Now, the Royal Canadian Air Farce is another matter.
I am curious about what Neil said, however.
But I'm not going to pay money to subscribe to Blacklock to find out.
By the way, there's a lot to mock about the Catholic Church.
See the movie, "Spotlight" much?
Read about the Canadian Residential School system?
Know anything about Mount Cashel brothers?

**Posted by 67GreenRambler** May 14, 2025 3:14 pm

I've read a little about Native boarding schools. Like all parents they wanted their children to have an education. At peak 4 out of 10 schools were administered by members of the Catholic church.

Last October retired Manitoba judge Brian Giesbrecht said Canadians are being “deliberately deceived by their own government” for “actively pursuing” a policy that blames the Catholic Church for the unfounded deaths of Indigenous children.

Historical records show the children who died of disease or accident while attending residential school were all given Christian burials, with their deaths properly recorded.

As you know, 10 of Prime Minister Jean Chretien's brothers and sisters died in infancy. He is catholic. Was that the church too?

**Posted by Chrisphen** May 14, 2025 3:30 pm

CBC - we must defend Canadian values from the menacing Papists and Fenians.

**Posted by Walter** May 14, 2025 4:13 pm

Doesn't matter in the big picture. Canada will be an Islamic country in a couple of generations.