Tracy Connor Feb.26, 2013
"A lame-duck pope. A secret dossier. Rumors of a gay cabal. A cardinal accused of "inappropriate" behavior.
The Vatican is in an uproar, and church scholars say there hasn't been this much drama surrounding a conclave since 1800, when Pope Pius VI died while being held prisoner by Napoleon.
One Vatican watcher says you have to go back to 1730 - when Pope Benedict XIII's right-hand man fled Rome in disguise amid allegations of corruption - to find a conclave buffeted by this much scandal.
"This is not a healthy situation for any kind of institution," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, an expert on the Catholic Church at Georgetown University. "It looks like amateur hour."
Cardinal tipped to become first black pope in modern times blames gay priests for abuse scandals facing Catholic church
Simon Caldwell Feb.22, 2013
The African cardinal widely tipped to be the first black pope in modern history faced a firestorm of criticism last night after he laid the blame for clerical sex abuse crises at the feet of gay priests.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, who comes from Ghana, told an American journalist that similar sex scandals would never convulse churches in Africa because the culture was inimical to homosexuality.
'African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency,' he told Christiane Amanpour of CCN.
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