Is this a fair comment?
| 18:45 UK time, Friday, 2 April 2010
The Pope's personal preacher has compared accusations against the Pope over the sex abuse allegations, to what he called the suffered by the Jews.
Speaking in a Good Friday sermon in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, quoted from a letter from a Jewish friend who'd said the accusations reminded him of the .
Update: Father Cantalamessa has since for his comments, "I am truly sorry to have hurt the feelings of Jewish friends". He also said he did not think anti-Semitism and the "attacks on the Church in these days" were comparable, and that the Pope had not known in advance about the remarks in his sermon.
Is this a fair comment?
