Beth: Mixed Emotions About The Pope

BethB: I have a lot of conflicting feelings about this pope , that I didn’t post on my blog - including the horror I felt when he was elected (since he’d previously been in charge of the CDF, which is the current grand inquisitor office - still sits on the same land, in fact); and then the hope that I had as he took certain actions and said certain things over the past couple of years on this issue… and then now, when I just feel sucker punched, realizing those had to have been political moves, at least in part. And I knew that before. It just wasn’t “in my face” at the time.

Question: Is Pope Benedict XVI and church leaders doing the best they can to rid the Catholic Church of clergy involved in sex crimes against children, in your estimation?