If you aren't following the big new sex scandal coming out of Germany and Rome--yes, right up to and including the Vatican--you should be.
It's getting very close to the Pope himself.
It seems his brother was in charge in Germany when they reportedly had some sexual and physical abuse, both, going on.
Worse, the Pope's "former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict was in charge."
Ouch.
It gets worse, too:
"...concern is mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive the pope penned instructing bishops to keep abuse secret."
It's getting curiouser and curiouser.
It's the old problem, at a new place: What did the Pope know and when did he know it?
Dan Brown's book and movie, "Angels and Demons", might not have anything on this one.
Stay tuned.
Link to another, new story, too, on abuse reports now coming out of Switzerland:
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/13/1810039/swiss-media-60-people-report-abuses.html
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It really is hard to spin pedophilia.
and me?
I'm just asking the question.
I'm not accusing.
mr
I just meant that the Vatican is going to have a difficult time dancing around this one.
Yeah, and that's kind of why I wrote this one because the media is already pointing out that he was in charge at the time, very matter-of-factly and he wrote the document on keeping this all on the down-low. All facts.
How, exactly, do you get out of this unless you just never address it? And unfortunately, I think that is precisely the tack they'll take.
I think they're in a world of bad stuff here.
mr
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