The Hypocrisy Files: Vatican As Victim
“In March 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said in response to the damaging stream of breaking news stories about pedophilia in the Church that, ‘From God comes the courage not to be intimidated by petty gossip.’ Petty gossip. Factual news accounts of this horror are reduced to petty gossip. But the Vatican did not stop there. The attack on the media was in fact two-pronged: beyond spreading unsubstantiated rumors and gossip, the media was also said to have exaggerated the extent and depth of the problem as a means of persecuting the Church. …
“At one point the Vatican floated the idea that the Church was the victim, equating the uproar over the sex scandal to the persecution of the Jews. I’ll let that one speak for itself, other than to note that such a claim reeks of desperation. The logic behind that claim is evidence of a moral compass spinning out of control.”
— Jeff Schweitzer
“A False Claim to Divine Morality: Sex, Lies and Pedophiles”
Huffington Post, April 30, 2012
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