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260 STRIPPING THE GURUS
Nor has the situation improved in more recent years:
In the first year of his papacy, [John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla]
revoked the teaching license of Father Hans Küng, the Swiss
theologian who has challenged papal infallibility.... In 1997
Wojtyla excommunicated the Sri Lankan writer-priest Tissa
Balasuriya for diluting Roman doctrinal orthodoxy: Balasuriya’s
writing had cast doubts on the doctrines of original sin
and the virginity of the Mother of God (Cornwell, 1999).
By contrast:
Rome never put Hitler’s writings on the Index; the Führer
until the end of his reign was allowed to remain a member of
the Church, i.e., he was not excommunicated (Lewy, 2000).
Interested in having the truth be known at all costs? Right....
Two ladies, worried about their pastor’s overtures to teenage
boys, discovered that he had come to their town from a
treatment center after a plea bargain. A boy he had molested
in a previous parish cut off a finger and received a settlement.
When the ladies asked that Father be removed, the
bishop not only refused their request but threatened a slander
suit if they made a public issue of it (Berry, 1992).
Or, as the journalist Michael Harris (1991) confided to a victim
of alleged clergy sexual abuse who was about to go public with
his story, in cautioning the latter about the associated police- and
government-aided cover-up around the Christian Brothers’ Mount
Cashel Orphanage in Newfoundland:
[T]here are powerful forces involved in this story, for whom
the last thing that is wanted is the truth. I don’t believe that
many people will be congratulating either you or me for
bringing this sordid affair into the public eye.
In an interview [in May of 2002] Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez
Maradiaga of Honduras, widely seen as a leading candidate
to be the next pope, addressed the American [pedophilia] crisis.
He blamed the American press for “persecution” of the
Church.... “Only in this fashion can I explain the ferocity [of
attacks on the esteem of the Catholic Church] that reminds