'Sex abuse is the Catholic 9/11'

'Sex abuse is the Catholic 9/11' Interesting parallelism here between what happened to the United States during the 9/11 attack and the sex abuse scandal in the Vatican! It argues that as the invincible formidability of the US has been challenged by the unexpected terrorristic attack of 9/11, also the Vatican's representative cultural role has been changed in the midst of this sex abuse scandal issues on all sides.

Massimo Franco in his book entitled C'era Una Volta un Vaticano ("Once Upon a Time, there was a Vatican"), has proposed that the underlying the PR melt down and internal crises of the Vatican under Benedict XVI lies a "radical historical shift - from the Vatican as the chaplain of the West, to the Vatican as representative of a minority subculture." Franco arues that "for centuries, the Vatican thought and acted like the representative of a cultural majority in the West – a mentality forged in the era of Christendom, and given new life during the Cold War, when the Vatican and the great Western powers were fundamentally on the same page. It’s no longer adequate to the changed cultural landscape of the 21st century, he says – and the inability of senior Vatican personnel to adapt to this new world is the fundamental force, he argues, beneath their apparent disorientation."

Massiimo Franco, is a veteran journalist of Corriere della Serra, Italy's most prestigious daily newspaper.