A reader notes:

When Laurie Goodstein rewrites a press release from Jeff Anderson making claims the Public Editor of the Times doen’t even thinks implicates the pope (see quote below)- IT IS FRONT PAGE NEWS!!!!

(“The Times article did not establish what role, if any, Ratzinger played, saying only that communications about the case were addressed to him and that his deputy intervened. That’s a long way from saying Ratzinger did.”- Clark Hoyt April 24 2010)

When a half a million people(!) attend a mass in Honor of Our Lady of Fatima and presided by Pope Benedict in Portugal yesterday- we get only crickets.

What did you expect? Remember the words of Uncle Screwtape to Wormwood regarding his mission in his “patient’s” life: “Do remember you are there to fuddle him. From the way some of you young fiends talk, anyone would suppose it was our job to teach!”