“The Evasive Coverage of This Scandal by Team Francis Hardliners Is Impossible to Justify.”

Damian Thompson, whom Fr Z quotes, is one of Britain's foremost, orthodox Catholic journalists. Well worth reading and heeding.
From Fr Z's Blog

Damian Thompson has a good commentary at The Spectator.

He adds a wrinkle I had not thought about:

The evasive coverage of this scandal by Team Francis hardliners is impossible to justify. Certain ‘reporters’ should ask themselves whether they have become complicit in concealing sexual abuse.

Meanwhile, most of the secular media – now almost bereft of religion specialists – are lazily clinging to the narrative of Francis as a ‘Great Reformer’.

He is nothing of the sort. He’s a man whose ruthless and cynical modus operandi was well known in Argentina before he was elected pope. (I urge everyone to read the book The Dictator Pope by Henry Sire, which gives chapter and verse.) Note that Francis has not set foot in his home country since leaving for the 2013 conclave. He dare not: he has too many enemies there.

Henry Sire’s  book could be supplemental reading to The Present Crisis:

US HERE – UK HERE

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