There’s little to add to the discussion of priests and pederasty that hasn’t been said repeatedly. Of that, nearly all should be painfully obvious—and is, to anyone but the priests who commit the crime and the priests who cover it up.
I just want to add one observation, regarding the Pope’s defense of his confessor’s infamous comparison of the criticism the Catholic church is now enduring with the Jewish holocaust. Absurd as that comparison is, there’s no apology, no recognition of error committed in attempting to defend the indefensible, and most tellingly no actual rejection of the claim. There’s only the assurance that Rev. Cantalamessa’s assertion does not reflect official church policy.
And y’know…? I don’t find it very reassuring that the movers and shakers at the very pinnacle of the Catholic hierarchy hold strong, ridiculous, and deeply offensive opinions that are tacitly embraced even as they are deemed unfit for public consumption. As the ongoing revelations of systemic rape reveal, unofficial policy can do an awful lot of damage, too, and unofficial policy is set by precisely the kind of belief that Cantalamessa expressed this Easter.
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