You defense of those who rape children is astounding.
This Pope has done more than ANYONE in the Church to reign in this horror. He sent word to ALL the Bishops Conferences to clean up their Seminaries, so as to stop the attitudes that led to this abuse. What our Bishops Conference, has not admitted, and from what I've read, NONE of the other Conferences have done so either, is that much of the abuse against pre-teen or teenaged boys by done by priests who were active homosexuals. The attempt to portray this as pedophilia is a smokescreen for the majority of the abuse. Political correctness has kept them from stating THAT fact.
I don't know about other countries, but in the US, the Bishops have started moving on those Seminaries that allowed men they KNEW to be active homosexuals into the studies for the priesthood, and some were ordained. This Pope has stated that men who are active homosexuals should NOT be allowed to become priests. Thankfully, the Bishops have begun to listen.
FReepers ordinarily are very wary of press reports because, as we well know, they are often biased or outright fraudulent in support of a particular political axe (usually liberal).
You suspend your disbelief because you want the worst to be true. I don't venture into your motivations for that desire.
But when you not only slander the Pope and the Church, but turn on your fellow FReepers as "defending those who rape children", you are "making it personal".
And by allowing yourself to react like Pavlov's dog not only to every slanderous media report, but to slander in turn those who try to point out the errors in those reports, you are betraying everything that Free Republic and free speech stands for.
You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.