Reply #8: "Catholic Hierarchy Rallies Around Pope on Easter"

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/world/europe/05pope.html

VATICAN CITY — A prominent cardinal, in a marked departure from Easter Mass tradition at the Holy See, stood before Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday and delivered a very public show of support in the face of growing anger over the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal — a topic that the pope stayed resolutely aloof from in his Easter appearances.

The remarks by the prelate, Angelo Sodano, a former secretary of state and the dean of the college of cardinals, came among a chorus of denunciations by church officials of what they have framed as a campaign of denigration of the church and its pontiff.

I fear that those of us who hope to see any change in the Catholic Church to come from this are going to be sorely disappointed. The conservatives who hold most of the power in the Church are circling their wagons and rallying around the Pope.