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Article originally prepared on : 20 April 2010
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A pox upon humanity : A 'Failed Papacy'? How Benedict XVI Got Into This Mess
Description: Benedict XVI quipped in a rare aside to reporters back in 2006, little over a year after his fellow cardinals had elected him S
A 'Failed Papacy'? How Benedict XVI Got Into This Mess
"I am learning to be pope," Benedict XVI quipped in a rare aside to reporters back in 2006, little over a year after his fellow cardinals had elected him Supreme Pontiff in a brief, momentous and somewhat surprising conclave in the Sistine Chapel. Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was not forecast as a likely winner in polling among the 110 cardinals.
But win he did, and on Monday, as Benedict marks the fifth anniversary of that election, he could still make the same observation about his learning curve, and few would dispute him, though most would wish it were not the case.
With the pope and the Vatican beseiged by revelations of cases of the sexual abuse of children by clergy and growing questions about Benedict's role in the crisis, many critics and even a growing number of his friends are pressing the pope to take charge of the situation, or at least show some of the same urgency and attention to this crisis as he did to policing orthodoxy during his 23 years as the hardline head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
"There is absolutely no strategy, and I say that as a friend of the pope's," said an American bishop who travels to Rome regularly and voiced the frustration shared by many churchmen in the U.S. and elsewhere. Apparently, that sentiment is not widely-held in the upper echelons of the Roman Curia, the papal bureaucracy. "I don't think they know how to handle this."
The Vatican's ineptitude is clear from the fresh stories that churn up in each news cycle, many of them at this point generated not by new reports of clerical misdeeds but by the ham-fisted defenses (and offenses) offered up by Benedict's ostensible protectors. On Good Friday, for instance, the papal preacher compared media reports on the abuse cases to the anti-Semitism that nearly wiped out the Jewish people. And at Mass in St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday a senior Vatican cardinal said the reports on the abuses were little more than "petty gossip." (Benedict stood up and gave the cardinal, Angelo Sodano, a big hug.)
Last week, the pope's No. 2 in the Vatican and his chief diplomat, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sparked a furor by saying homosexuals in the priesthood tended to be pedophiles -- a claim even the Vatican spokesman had to walk back -- while one of Benedict's leading colleagues in the curia for years, Colombian Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, this month told CNN's Spanish-language program that shuttling pedophile priests around to other parishes is "not a cover-up" but is only "correcting" the priest, who has simply made "a mistake, which is often a minimal error."
Castrillon was until 2006 the head of the Vatican department responsible for policies regarding the more than 400,000 priests around the world, and it also emerged last week that in 2001 Castrillon had praised a French bishop for going to jail rather than reporting one of his abusive priests to the police.
So just how bad has it become for the pope?
Consider that Germany's Der Spiegel, the leading magazine in
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