"The Pope is pretty unassailable. He is not elected…"

How vicious, irresponsible, and ignorant is The Times? Quite.

Comments

[Mark Brumley]

I was wondering when something like this would happen. The media wants "transparency" in these cases but much of the media is incompetent or malicious or both, when it comes to its coverage of priest sexual abuse. Headlines declare priests or bishops or, now, even the pope, guilty. Sometimes--only sometimes--when you read the articles themselves you get a fuller picture. But often you get only allegations and mischaracterizations that make impossible a fair assessment of the facts. And then the media in question wonders why church officials are disinclined to "full disclosure". How willing would you be to disclose anything if you thought the mere publicization of the facts would subject you to a barrage of media mischaracterizing the facts or prejudging the case?

[Mark Brumley]

You feel like asking these people in the media, "Are you innately talented when it comes to misrepresenting the facts or is this a skill you acquired with practice?"

[David]

I really do hope that after all Pope Benedict has been through over the last five years he'll consider writing an encyclical on the topic of evil during the summer. I also don't know how anyone observing what he's had to put up with from the media and his own priests and bishops could doubt the existence of Satan. There has, to my mind, been a concerted effort to wreck this pontificate from the very beginning. Of course anyone here who has read Ratzinger's work will know that there's not a thing Satan can do to stop him. He'll just keep pushing on with the mission and office entrusted to him.

[Robert]

I agree with David 100%.

[Manuel G. Daugherty Razetto]

Undeniable as it is that the Media, here or there, is influenced by radical leftist propaganda, seeing the pernicious attack against our pope is always disconcerting.
David is correct, our Pope is not as vulnerable as they think. The reason is that he is on the side of Good and the Truth. David is also right stating , plainly, how priests and bishops distance themselves from our pope Benedict XVI in detriment of our Church.