I was telling a colleague about the NCR articles on JPII and his relations to the head of that one order (you know, that one), and 1st of all he couldn't believe that he hadn't heard about the scandal.
"You couldn't make that stuff up," he was like. "And this is more unbelievable than Dan Brown's fiction!"
He also said that 50 years ago or earlier, the Protestant popular press would have loved to tie a pope in with a cover-up of molestation, but they wouldn't know, because they're allies on the culture wars.
He was definitely excited about some broader but less common intellectual issues raised by the NCR articles, about who writes history and why, and how journalists create sources that historians will later use, but historians now don't use them, and how journalists with political and religious commitments try to overcome those and be fair-minded. He said that he's been researching the lives of some figures tarred by Communist sources, and he wishes he had access to living people to get to the bottom of it!
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I was very disturbed when I heard about John Paul II and his relations with the head of that order. That kind of thing should never happen. Much less when you're talking about a pope.
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