The Pope, while apparently stepping up to the plate to address the systematic and culturally ingrained abuse of children within his organisation, has tried his best to turn the knife and say that somehow this abuse happened because of America's secularisation and the ready availability of porn.

It will be interesting to see how he spins that one when he visits Ireland.  Hardly a secular country, and in parts of it, you still can't buy a pack of Trojans. So how will he explain how Catholic priests have systematically sodomised generation after generation of children in Catholic schools, orphanages and even within the precincts of their churches?  Will he explain away how victims were silenced and the guilty parties moved around the church to offend again instead of having to face justice?

The Pope didn't have to face the Nuremburg trials as his other Nazi colleagues did, however there might one day be a day or reckoning for those who were abused by the power of the Catholic Church.
Just following (Holy) orders won't be a good enough reason for that tribunal either.



Pope addresses sex abuse and secularisation