![]() But the truth appears be rather different from the headlines, an example of which from the venerable London Times reads: Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to continue with ministry ![]() This is breaking news, and we’ll need more time and more thorough reporting to sift through the facts. The sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church took a wolfish turn for the worse this weekend when the media pounced on a story alleging that in 1979 the then Munich Archbishop, a great priest by the name of Joseph Ratzinger, transferred a sex-abusing priest to another assignment at which the priest in question subsequently abused more kids. A couple of years ago, I wrote a book called Smear Tactics and in the process developed a good nose for the ways by which certain members of the Fourth Estate mount spurious attacks against public figures. ![]()
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