The Pope Covered Up Pedophile Priests

[Xantar]

Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.

Source: New York Times

I remember having a conversation with Strangler about religion way back in 2004 or so. We were going through the definitions of "deist" and "theist" and "atheist" and so on when he casually dropped the line, "Catholic = corrupt."

I thought he was being pretty harsh at the time. Sadly, it seems I was too optimistic. I honestly don't know how the Catholic Church recovers from this or how regular ground-level Catholics who weren't involved in any of this can rebuild the institution.