In what purports to be a news article rather than an op-ed piece, The New York Times reported on July 2 that the future pope, it is now clear, was also part of a culture of nonresponsibility, denial, legalistic foot-dragging and outright obstruction.
Pope Benedict said on Thursday the sexual abuse scandal shaking Roman Catholicism showed the church needed to do penance for its sins, in a rare public reference by the pope to pedophilia in the priesthood.
