Comment: Without minimizing Ratzinger's responsibility in the Maciel case, do you think it is fair to say that the ultimate responsibility was John Paul's?  John Paul's defense of Maciel ("an efficacious guide to youth"!!) represented either a callous indifference to Maciel's crimes or a willful ignorance about them. John Paul's malfeasance in this case in particular, and with regard to clergy sex abuse n general, should have precluded, or at least delayed, his canonization.