text: For those of you outwith the U.K. You may wish to look up comedian Dave Allen on YouTube. He was an Irish Catholic who used to do sketches which poked fun at the Church for all of the things, justmaybe describes above. That was in the sixties and seventies. Very courageous man. They tried to silence him too.
  
  One of his best quotes was that he loved that period of time between one Pope dying and another getting elected. He said, "Its a magnificent few days where absolutely no one on earth claims to be infallible."