Benedict XVI prefers to hold far fewer face-to-face meetings than did John Paul II
For centuries, the papacy has operated with the conviction that it answers to no earthly power. Many in Rome still believe that to be the case, but nowadays the church's faithful also believe in the sanctity of a free and vigorous press, with its unrelenting questions and nose for controversy. This all makes running modern media relations for the Vatican, in polite terms, a job from hell.
The current pedophile-priest scandal what the Catholic writer and papal critic Andrew Sullivan pointedly refers to as "child rape" by clergy has transfixed Catholics around the world, particularly with...
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