Pope blames American culture for Catholic Problems

It's no irony that Ratzinger stood next to Bush while he blamed America's "depravity" for his church raping boys. With a straight face, while wearing designer Prada shoes that cost more than an average Peruvian family's income, he said that promiscuity in America forced priests to rape boys.

Of course, he made no mention of his own role in sheltering those priests, or of him shipping Cardinal Law to Rome to a cushy sinecure far away from the legal troubles he caused in the US. Instead of doing time in prison where he belongs, Law is now serving as head of La Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, where he officiated at a funeral service for Pope John Paul II.

To put this in perspective, if a high school principal had learned that a teacher had molested a student, and the principal merely transferred the teacher to another class to cover up the scandal, that principal would be in prison today. Instead, Cardinal Law is living La Dolce Vita in Rome. Ratzinger is like the Superintendent telling the parents of those abused children that if the kids weren't dressed so sluttily, the teachers wouldn't have raped them.


Blaming the Victims