The Catholic Church is defending Pope Benedict XVI from accusations of covering up sexual abuse scandals, but it’s become increasingly difficult due to the media coverage.
And they’re singling out the New York Times for “targeting the whole church, targeting the pope, and to that we must say `no’ in the name of truth and in the name of justice,” said Warsaw Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz.
Vienna’s Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn also claims that Benedict “had a very clear line of not covering up but clearing up.”
He continued:
“I admit that I often feel a sense of injustice these days. Why is the church being excoriated? Isn’t there also abuse elsewhere? … And then I’m tempted to say: ‘Yes, the media just don’t like the church! Maybe there’s even a conspiracy against the church?’ But then I feel in my heart that no, that’s not it.”
The Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, claims that these accusations are a “clear and despicable intention” by the media to strike at Benedict “at any cost.”
And in the article posted on the Vatican’s site on Wednesday, Cardinal William Levada, wrote, “I am not proud of America’s newspaper of record, The New York Times, as a paragon of fairness.”
But the Times has fired back!
“The allegations of abuse within the Catholic church are a serious subject, as the Vatican has acknowledged on many occasions,” said spokeswoman Diane McNulty. “Any role the current pope may have played in responding to those allegations over the years is a significant aspect of this story.”
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