It's bad PR when your upper/middle mangement folks are detained

[unhappycamper]

Pope Benedict attacks Belgium police for raiding suspected pedophile priests
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, June 27th, 2010 -- 4:40 pm

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday accused Belgian police of "deplorable methods" in raiding a bishops' meeting as part of a pedophilia probe, as Brussels said the Vatican was over-reacting.

The pontiff wrote a message of support to Andre-Joseph Leonard, archbishop of Brussels-Mechelen and the head of the Belgian bishops' conference, over the raid in which senior clergy were detained for questioning.

"I want to express... my closeness and solidarity in this moment of sadness, in which, with certain surprising and deplorable methods, searches were carried out including in the Mechelen cathedral and in the premises where the Belgian episcopate was meeting in plenary session," he said.

Thursday's raids were prompted by new claims of child abuse by members of the Catholic Church in Belgium, one of the countries worst hit by recent revelations of pedophilia by priests in Europe and North America.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said Saturday the detention of bishops was "serious and unbelievable", likening it to the practices of communist regimes.



unhappycamper comment: Get over it, Ratsi.

[kenny blankenship]

1. And have their tombs drilled open...

I'd sure like to know what was said that brought that on.

[Angry Dragon]

3. There seems to have been recent work on one of the tombs

They just wanted to check to see if anything was placed inside.

Going into the tombs might have been too much but everything else
is what everyone else has to go through when complaints arise.

[kenny blankenship]

4. So it was not about zombie child molesters?

At least one of the wild rumors about the Church is untrue then.

[Angry Dragon]

5. The catholic church always tells me .. God works in mysterious ways

[Sanity Claws]

2. I haven't seen one person support the Vatican on this

I don't think the Church understands yet how hated it has become.

Of course, if you have read articles or blogs supporting the Vatican's position, I'd love to know it.