Pope will struggle to survive abuse scandal
By John Cooney
Saturday March 13 2010
"A depressing week for Pope Benedict dramatically escalated last night into an unprecedented papal crisis when he was directly implicated in a cover-up of a German paedophile priest when he was Cardinal Archbishop of Munich 30 years ago...
The latest revelations are so potentially damaging to the reputation of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that speculation was mounting last night that they could severely, perhaps even irreparably, damage his moral authority as Pope Benedict XVI...
Benedict is now in the eye of the biggest sex abuse crisis to hit the Vatican. Whether he can survive is doubtful -- if the Catholic Church he rules is also to survive."
- John Cooney
Irish Independent
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Bridget Mary,
ReplyDeleteSomehow I think the pope is going to survive this.
Here is the reality: Our friends will understand, our enemies will hate us anyway. This simply gives those who hate the Church and everything she stands for yet one more reason to hate her. Anyone can be Catholic when the Church is not going through a crisis and everyone loves the Church. It is times like this you find out who the REAL Catholics are.
Indeed Bridget Mary the papacy has survived heresy, schism, armies, governments, and everything in-between and has come thorough unscathed---and even stronger.
At some point- whether that point is tommrow, or 10 years from now, people are simply going to get tired of hearing about the sex scandal every other day. But even so, Bridget Mary, rest assured the papacy will outlast the sex scandal. This is not to say the Church will not possibly face difficult times- but the Church and the papacy will survive.