Should the pope be,just that should any church have an infallible leader?
Even catholics say no if it is a cult but what is this church?
Such as Philo confront non believers such as myself with the atheist tag, blaming us for baby murders a whole host of sins/crimes.
The alleged very holiness of this man stands between him and justice.
I ask truly those who dislike me for my belief to tell me why they think this man is unlike any other if he hide these crimes.

I came across this website which gives
another perspective to this matter:

http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2010/20100407112508.aspx.

The question that I have is why are these matters
being raised at this particular time, and by whom, to
what end? It seems that the focus has come as a result of
articles in "The New York Times."

I'll quote just a little from the website:

"ABC, CBS, and NBC featured 26 stories during Holy Week
about Pope Benedict's perceived role in the sex abuse
scandal the Catholic Church is now facing. Only one story
focused on the measures the church had adopted in recent
years to prevent abuse.

In 69% of the stories 18 out of 26 reporters used language
that presumed the Pope's guilt. Only one made specific
mention of the drop in the incidence of abuse allegations
against the Catholic Church...

These stories failed to paint the whole picture of what
actually occurred, of Benedict's role in the decision-making
process about these priests and allowed the media to depict
abuse in the Catholic Church as a growing problem when the
evidence indicates the reverse is true...

It's not the problem of abuse that's "growing" but rather
the media interest in the story, conveniently giving
broadcast networks the opportunity to disparage the
Catholic Church during its most holy time of the year..."

I can't help but wonder why? Is this a ploy
to deflect from other political
global events currently taking place?

Thanks for bring pellucidity to the debate Foxy.
I have previously said much the same thing,
albeit not so eloquently as yourself:
"Could the inordinate focus by the media on child sex abuse and the Catholic church have anything to do with the fact that the media and the church are ideological enemies on most matters?
As exemplified by Obama's sanctification and Palin's demonisation during the US presidential elections, the media seems intent on destroying anybody or anything that doesn't lean as far left as they do."

Foxy, I didn't find any info on any growing numbers of abuse cases caused by Catholic Clergy at present.

As far as I can see, the outcry is about the continuing protection of Catholic Priest paedophiles, and the Bishops who hid their crimes in the past.

If the Pope and the Vatican would only come out and say they will now give over to Police the files of names they must have of paedophiles still harboured within the Catholic Clergy, it would go a long way to resolving the situation.

Dear Suze,

Why don't you read the website I've given
in full. It may answer your questions
concerning what the current Pope has done
regarding the sexual abuse situation.
The facts are there to be had.

The website you gave made it clear as Crystal Fox y.