I posted this on another thread devoted to this same subject:
Prudential errors were made, but Benedict has done more to address the problems in the priesthood in his short pontificate than were ever addressed in the years previous. This is a campaign to demoralize Catholics(and in effect other Christians) during the holiest time of the Church year, and to inflict damage on the Church as payback for opposition to pro-abort Obamacare. That’s not to say that a good scouring of the Church doesn’t need to be done. There is always sorrow and death before resurrection.
Pray for the Pope, and for all people of good will. I think that, with the magnitude of the crisis in the world and church at the present time, that perhaps God’s justice and mercy are soon to fall on the world.
It is a very sad situation for the victims. It is disgrace to the Church. Pedophillia is an disgusting crime, even moreso when practiced by a wolf in sheep’s clothing and protected by those who claim to be shepards.
It’s too bad the Vatican is being trashed seemingly unfairly. Still the whole scandal is so repulsive and the cover up so deep and wide-spread that it seems only proper for the pope to take the heat as much as the local bishops who were involved. The Church is an institution and it is going to be seen as a whole, and right now it is very, very tarnished one and rightfully so. When you do bad things that allow your enemies to attack you it is your fault not theirs. You get what you deserve and more.
Anyone who makes excuses for the Church at this point is not accepting reality.