[agere_contra]

Benedict seems to be lurching from crisis to crisis — from the 2006 speech Benedict gave that offended Muslims and touched off violence, to his repeated clashes with the Jewish community, to his rehabilitation last year of a schismatic right-wing bishop who is also a Holocaust denier.

That's it? Those are the crises? He rebuked Islam and he lifted the ban from a penitent?

Thanks for posting this NYer, it gives an insight into the thought processes of an "Inside the beltway" writer in a Vatican context. But IMO this article is a lot of froth about nothing.

[bboop]

It is froth about nothing. I love that Benedict spoke the truth about Islam. That’s why there was a stink. He is one of the handful of folks in the world who dared to speak out. Clearly and with authority.

Those who speak the Truth will always be targeted by those who hate the Truth.

[LadyDoc]

all these scandals are ordinary everyday problems that the press has trumpeted to bring down the church.

Most Catholics know this, and shrug...