Johann Hari on Ratzinger
Whatever you do don’t miss Johann Hari on the BBC saying what’s what about the pope. He does a tremendous job. He reads what the pope told the bishops in 2001; he asks what would happen if this kind of thing happened at the BBC – imagine the top boffin telling all the staff to keep everything entirely secret and moving the child rapist to a different creche in a different part of London; he says repentance is not enough, this is a criminal matter.
It’s not enough to say sorry, if you’re sorry, hand yourself over to the police and allow them to investigate it.
When Marc Roche of Le Monde is waffling on about waiting for a better pope he cuts in and says we wouldn’t talk this way about any other organization – we wouldn’t say oh dear what can we do, we’ll just have to wait for a better boss of the outfit. He’s a man of steel. Don’t miss it.
Thanks for posting very interesting video. There are more of the likes of this Scottish journalist needed to bring the message of child abuse across to the whole world. Nice comparison made him. I was reading the following http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/the-popes-2001-letter/ – which Johann Hari discusses in video.
Hari has been on a roll of late, always good but with this and his recent articles on Afghanistan he is outstanding.
[…] des crimes qu’il a contribué pendant des années à mettre sous le boisseau, tout en restant incapable de les condamner clairement sans saper l’autorité de l’organisation même que ces cachotteries étaient censées […]
Don, indeed, and there was that shattering long piece on women in Ethiopia. Plus he does in person cold fury really well. I envy that – I’m completely incapable of it. All I can do is hot rage, which involves violent trembling and a scarlet face and flop sweat. I can do cold fury only on the keyboard.
Oh look, a pingback in French! How rewarding. I wonder what boisseau is. I think I can guess what cachotteries are – stupid chickenshit secrets.