[Dr. Eckleburg]

what else could explain their what it seems to me unwillingness to make amends if not a matter of money?

Power. Power trumps money any day of the week.

Money is just a means to an end.

The RCC paid out $700 million on one day in one city two years ago, but it's just a pebble in the Tiber. Hardly a ripple..

This is not Christianity.

"I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right." -- Isaiah 45:19

"Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing." -- John 18:20

Pity Ratzinger has not followed Christ's example.

[Quix]

TOOO TRUE, imho.

Thx.