[ultima ratio]

Hit piece, my eye. Dreher is a serious Catholic telling the simple truth. People like you can do nothing but bluster and use ad hominem attacks--since you can't refute the reality. This Pope has been all over the place lately, sending envoys hither and yon, and working himself into a lather over Iraq. But he has been absolutely silent for twenty-five years about the scourge of clerical sexual abuse that is systemic in the Church. Those are the facts.

[RobbyS]

Dreher has been very judicious in his criticism of the bishops. But he is right. The eneregy the Church shows in this matter is in pointed contrast to its lethargy in the matter of the sex scandals.