The Pope's boyfriend and more huge Catholic developments

From the "It's What They've Said All Along" file, people are saying the Pope has a boyfriend.

Don't look now but that's rather what's being at least suggested:

Two Popes, One Secretary

This writing, above, is from Andrew Sullivan at his blog The Dish.

He's getting his information from yet another writer, lest we dismiss this just because it is, after all, Andrew Sullivan, for those who would dismiss him. One critic, Colm Toibin, writing on Italian Angelo Quatrrochi's book. Seems his book was published back in 2010 and Mr. Sullivan wrote on this situation some time ago. It's news to me. his book:

Actually, the discussion of the Pope and his assistant and whatever their relationship is, has been going on since at least 2010. Mr. Sullivan's latest writing just filled out the story a bit more.

It seems that, in a very unusual move, the Pope's "right hand person"--a man--his "personal secretary", will serve the eventual new pope in the daytime and be with Benedict XVI in the evening, at night.  Or so Mr. Sullivan and the others describe it.

In the meantime, there is some good--no, great news that just broke today on the Catholic Church's worldwide sexual abuse scandals:

Vatican Summoned Before UN Committee on Rights of the Child

From the above article:

February 28, 2013, New York and Rome – Today, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an alternate report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child documenting the ongoing worldwide sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. The UN committee has summoned the Vatican to report on its record of ensuring children are protected from sexual violence and safeguarding children’s well-being and dignity, the first time the Holy See will have been called to account for its actions on these issues before an international body with authority. The first meeting will take place in Geneva in June. 

This is some HUGE news and quite a development, folks, whether you're aware of that or not. That takes some of the Catholic Church's age-old ability to keep their sexual abuse cases under their own wraps and out of their own control.  The world is finally,  finally dragging this out into the public square where it needs to be and where it should have been long, long before now.

The Catholic Church is at an extremely turbulent time in its history, clearly:

Troubles for the Holy See Ahead of Papal Elections

As the author of the famous, international blog Whispers in the Loggia  said, this is going to get crazier and crazier for the Pope--and Catholic Church--no doubt.