A prominent Cardinal knows who’s to blame for the Catholic Pedophile Cover-Up Scandal: the media, of course.
Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga is considered a likely prospect for the next pope.
To sum up:
“The U.S. media appears … to act with a fury that reminds me at times of Diocletian and Nero and more recently of Stalin and Hitler. The church should be free of this kind of treatment.”
Never mind, of course, that the US political spectrum puts those issues in very different spots. It’s easier to just dismiss the whole thing as anti-Catholicism.
Again, this guy is identified as one of the Top Ten to succeed John Paul II. Is anyone else worried?
(Via InstaPundit, who has some choice comments, including a pointer at an article showing the scandal is far wider-spread than previously known/admitted, and indicating that the Church is still trying to cover things up)
wait…the honored cardinal left out one of the big bullies in his list of persecuters. stalin, hitler, diocletian, nero…and the catholic church.
*snort*