UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By Ephraim Hardcastle
Human rights QC Geoffrey Robertson thinks Pope Benedict XVI will spend the rest of his days in litigation over worldwide child abuse cases brought against the Roman Catholic church. He says: ‘I think he’ll go down in history as the ostrich Pope, the one who stuck his head in the sand while the storm was brewing.’ Benedict is portrayed in a poor light in Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, an award-winning US documentary released on Friday. Rather than being ignorant of clerical abuse scandals – as he has claimed – they say he was in charge of Vatican information-gathering on the subject. Deep waters.
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