Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa, the Pope’s "personal preacher" is evidently comparing critics of Benedict and the Catholic church to Hitler.
When I read that, my mouth dropped and my reaction was "Are you f**king kidding me?!"
Calling someone out for enabling and protecting child molesters is like killing Jews? This is just more to add to the growing mountain of evidence indicating that the Catholic Church hierarchy is not only morally bankrupt, but outrageously despicable.
I’m am officially disgusted.
I haven’t read anything on this subject as sober as this posting in which a former altar boy turned atheist explains how the pedophilia is a natural outcome of the environment in which priests serve. Indeed, we are all a product of the interaction of our genes and environment. The genes of the members of the priesthood are what they are; the only way for them to be expressed differently is for their environment to change. It is changing because the church is losing membership, but the suggestion is made that this change is one of the causes of this Hell.