So connect the dots for us. How did this lead to Pope Bennedicts Removal? Was it because he mismanaged the control of this scandal or that the gay mafia ganged up on him and forced him to step down or some other iteration?
My question also. Strange that the article didn't offer some explanation. I wondered if Benedict was so disheartened by the reality that he simply quit.
Pope Benedicts health was failing, and he did not think he was up to the task of cleaning up the filth described in the report. This is completely believable to me.
Benedict is a brilliant man, but does not have a lot of administrative skills. It has also been reported that his own Secretary of State, Cardinal Bertone, was actively working against him.
Bertone was the number 2 man in the Curia under Benedict. My guess is that he was blackmailing certain prelates known to be active homosexuals, who often were also prodigious fundraisers. Basically, the Curia have been practicing a modern version of simony, the same kind of corruption that so inflamed the Protestant Reformers.