Benedict's action (and inaction) surrounding the sex abuse crisis isn't good enough. Mistakes can be forgiven; what breeds mistrust is the refusal to admit error.
The uproar following Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of certain Holocaust-denying bishops seemed predictable to everyone but the pope himself.
If the Holy See has changed the Church's methodology for ecumenical engagement with certain Anglicans, has it also implicitly changed the goal of such engagement?