..."The current problem, however, is that Benedict and his immediate predecessor have made a real mess of the Catholic Church. He has failed to resolve in any significant way the priest sexual abuse scandal. Apparently, the Vatican’s child abuse legal defense is overseen by a sole practioner from California. Nine months now after firing the head of the Vatican Bank in the midst of financial scandals, Benedict has not replaced him. Meanwhile, the Vatican is incurring losses daily from its tourist business due apparently to related banking restrictions from the Bank of Italy. Apparently, the same California sole practioner is also advising the Vatican on its European banking law problems.Given this track record of failures, how many Cardinals really want to leave their financial and legal fates over the next few decades to the papal candidate selected by Benedict and his incompetent Vatican clique. The next couple of years will surely see an increase in international criminal investigations of child abuse and financial misdeeds. The major Australia abuse investigation commission is just the beginning. President Obama will face increasing demands to establish a comparable commission as the still ongoing LA Archdiocesean revelations shock almost everyone. Moreover, beginning next Monday evening, February 4, HBO will begin airing initially in both English and Spanish the award winning documentary, “Mea Maxima Culpa”. This powerful and moving documentary tells of the alleged sexual abuse over several decades by a single Milwaukee priest of over 200 deaf boys. It also points out clearly the Vatican’s failures to curtail this. HBO reaches over 25 million subscribers in the US and many more in over 150 other countries."
Read whole article by Jerry Slevin, an international Harvard trained lawyer
http://christiancatholicism.com/will-cardinals-try-to-delay-benedict-xvis-choice-for-next-pope/
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