CANADA
Huffington Post
Tim Knight writes the regular media column Watching the Watchdog for HuffPost Canada.
Sunday, Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, 85, who as Benedict XVl is believed to be the 265th man to be pope of the Roman Catholic Church described abuse and rape of children by his priests as “a mystery.”
He added, doubtless not appreciating the irony in his words, that the priests’ Christianity “had become merely a matter of habit.”
Indeed it had.
In fact, it became such a habit that around the world, over the years, unknown thousands of Catholic priests have been accused of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children, mostly boys, in their care.
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