[JohnnyZ]

Everytime I see how frail the pope has become I think this as well.

You confuse physical frailty with mental acuity, and insult the Pope in the process.

Plus you (both) seem to imply Ratzinger (et al) is the scion of evil rather than the servant of God that he is.

Both views are uninformed and insulting.

[all4one]

Salvifici Doloris (February 11, 1984) OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
JOHN PAUL II

"Thus the reality of suffering prompts the question about the essence of evil: what is evil?"

"This questions seems, in a certain sense, inseparable from the theme of suffering. The Christian response to it is different, for example, from the one given by certain cultural and religious traditions which hold that existence is an evil from which one needs to be liberated. Christianity proclaims the essential good of existence and the good of that which exists, acknowledges the goodness of the Creator and proclaims the good of creatures. Man suffers on account of evil, which is a certain lack, limitation or distortion of good. We could say that man suffers because of a good in which he does not share, from which in a certain sense he is cut off, or of which he has deprived himself. He particularly suffers when he a ought"—in the normal order of things—to have a share in this good and does not have it."

"Thus, in the Christian view, the reality of suffering is explained through evil, which always, in some way, refers to a good."

I am very well informed. I just don't believe that Pope John Paul, who wrote the above Apostolic Letter would have approved of anything less than a zero tolerance for priests accused of pedophilia.