On recent abuse scandals, Vatican talk is both too much and too little
Pope Francis meets with Maria Campatelli, director of the Centro
Aletti, a centre dedicated to research and art that promotes a dialogue between Eastern and Western Christianity, at the Vatican September 15. The centre was founded by former Jesuit Fr Marko Rupnik, who was expelled from the order in July after being accused of sexual abuse. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media
Chris Altieri “This business will get out of control,” intoned the inimitable Fred Thompson as Rear Admiral Joshua Painter in the film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October, after an F-14 had crashed on the deck of his aircraft carrier that was also carrying CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of that story and…