Quote of the Day: The Darkness Within the Catholic Church

Andrew Sullivan continues to ask why Ratzinger decided to step down as Pope – a move that is still causing tidal waves in the Catholic Church:

Was watching John Paul II waste away deter him? Or does he sense or understand, in fact, that what he presided over is and was one of the darkest eras in the church, that the crimes he enabled are so horrifying when viewed in their entirety and his record of negligence and cover-up before and after he became Pope has rendered him morally incapable of leading such an institution – indeed in need of withdrawal, reflection and penitence? He prefaced his resignation with the words: “After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God,  . . . ”