Pope Benedict’s One Unforgivable Failure

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Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Nothing distinguished the papacy ofPope Benedict XVI so much as the way in which he is leaving.

We should be grateful that he realizes his body is failinghim -- most people in power do not -- and is abdicating. Butlet’s not forget that it was Benedict who stood mostly mute asthe sexual abuse of children by priests continued.