Bye Bye Benny
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I'm comfortable saying that the world is a better place today, following the death of Pope Benedict, the only Pope in the church's long history to be kicked out of his position. It is, I think, fair to say that his forced "retirement," in the middle of a public eruption of the centuries long scandal of priestly sexual abuse of children, was directly related to his part in that horror; and I do not think that his enabling this monstrosity was enough to drive him into hiding; if so, many others would have suffered the same fate. I am confident that, when the whole truth is known, he was a direct participant in this abuse, which to this day renders the Catholic Church an unfit place for any decent person. So good riddance to a malignant human being.