For
Roman Catholics, February has not been a good month to be Christian.
Pictures of one of its latest saints, the much-revered Pope John Paul
II, surfaced, showing the late pope in the company of a married woman;
one photograph is of them skiing. An exchange of letters also came to
light that suggested a relationship of
‘more-than-friends-and-less-than-lovers’.
March,
the month that did Macbeth in, seems to be no better. The 2016 Oscars,
in which the journalism drama Spotlight won Best Picture , brought focus
back on sex abuse by priests, a reality that intermittently stalks the
Catholic Church and undermines the institution – mainly for its culture
of cover-up.
