April 5, 2010

Attacks on Pope Benedict and the Catholic Church over a sexual abuse scandal are comparable to the most shameful anti-Semitism, the pontiff\’s personal preacher told a Vatican Good Friday service.\n\nFather Raniero Cantalamessa, a Franciscan whose title is Preacher of the Pontifical Household, drew the parallel during a Passion of the Lord service in St. Peter\’s Basilica on the day Christians commemorate the death of Jesus by crucifixion