... the more we learn, the more the story stays the same

Recall:

Meanwhile a consistent story is emerging: Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger - now Pope Benedict - time and again intervened to protect sexual predators and stifle investigations of sexual abuse by the priesthood.
[We're not the only buggerers, so it's okay]

Seems I don't have to eat my words... yet:

AP: Vatican waited years to defrock Arizona priest
By MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Writer
– Sat Apr 3, 2010
The abuse cases of two priests in Arizona have cast further doubt on the Catholic church's insistence that Pope Benedict XVI played no role in shielding pedophiles before he became pope.

Documents reviewed by The Associated Press show that as a Vatican cardinal, the future pope took over the abuse case of the Rev. Michael Teta of Tucson, Ariz., then let it languish at the Vatican for years despite repeated pleas from the bishop for the man to be removed from the priesthood.

In another Tucson case, that of Msgr. Robert Trupia, the bishop wrote to then-Cardinal Ratzinger, who would become pope in 2005. Bishop Manuel Moreno called Trupia "a major risk factor to the children, adolescents and adults that he many have contact with." There is no indication in the case files that Ratzinger responded.

The details of the two cases come as other allegations emerge that Benedict — as a Vatican cardinal — was part of a culture of cover-up and confidentiality.
[emphasis added]

Again, the Church could help itself a lot by taking its own medicine:

Confession
Contrition
Penance

Why do they keep denying and lashing out? Surely they can afford a decent PR firm to help guide them!

Note: in general I don't obsess about the Catholic Church or about pedophilia... But the ineptitude of the Church's response to this evolving scandal is simply mind-boggling. It is this ineptitude that I find both intriguing and frustrating.