Home » Articles tagged ‘pope

‘Suffer the little children.’ How the Vatican’s good old boys protected Ireland’s most notorious pedophile priest, Father Tony Walsh.

December 21, 2010 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive, Religion

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant We have been accustomed for years now to the steadydrip, drip, drip of stories of pedophile priests — known,protected, unrelenting, sickening. The drill goes somethinglike this: First, the abuse. Then the denial. Then the acknowledgement. Then the settlement. Then the cash payments. Then the (ordinarily too weak) promisesof new oversight and …

Not the pope we wanted… Brussels’ Archbishop Andre Leonard clearly indicates why Benedict XVI is in trouble.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant As protests go, it was short and undeniably sweet:a man ran up the central aisle of Brussels’ maincathedral and shoved a cherry pie in the faceof Archbishop Andre Leonard, a man  seeminglytailor-made by history and Catholicism to roil and divide.Appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Leonard’sin-your-face pastry clearly indicated that he …