Two Popes battle it out over how to deal with the abuse scandal – and both are still losing
For late Easter reading I recommend Pope emeritus Benedict’s essay on the Church and the Scandal of Sex Abuse, recently published by a small Catholic magazine in Germany. No seriously, it’s great stuff. In very clear language the former 91 year old Cardinal Josef Ratzinger who was – and apparently still is – the greatest authority on Church doctrine during the reigns of four popes, has given his verdict on the great clerical sex abuse scandal that has so damaged …