A new Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, was installed in London today, making him the spiritual leader of the 4.2 million Catholics of England and Wales.  In the wake of the dreadful decades-long child abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic church of neighboring Ireland this week, what do you think his first order of business was?

That’s right, attack atheism:

At the installation of the Most Rev Vincent Nichols at Westminster Cathedral, his predecessor, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, described a lack of faith as “the greatest of evils” and blamed atheism for war and destruction, implying that it was a greater evil even than sin itself.
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In his homily at the service, Archbishop Nichols did not refer to child abuse, but pledged himself to a battle against the advancing tide of secularisation and a defence of faith.

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