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The evidence is ample and inarguable, but our political and civic leaders, our journalists and public intellectuals, will not pronounce the words that the data assert almost pathetically: the head of the Roman Catholic Church is guilty of conspiracy and obstruction of justice across continents, and is an accessory to an assortment of crimes against humanity.

I wanted to add that Ratzinger is "a friend to any fascist who seeks to be friends with him, and an enemy of what he demeans as 'anarchic freedom,' i.e. the principle of pluralism upon which liberal society is built," but my editor felt that would be hyperbolic.