I've refrained until now from commenting here about the death of Emeritus Pope Bendict, because...well, to be honest, I'm not sure what more I might say about Ratzinger/Benedict than I've already said here in the past.
Much that's being published about Benedict now is predictably adulatory, and, in my view, often downright obfuscatory, particularly when his track record in dealing with the abuse horror show in the Catholic church is being examined. The usual big-name Vaticanologists and Catholic media gurus have been busy doing their usual thing, weaving nice narratives about a deceased former pope in ...
