More on the Brazil seminaries report: (Someone there is who doesn’t like transparency — this is about seminaries in general, not just Brazil.)

To break the silence on homosexuality in the seminaries and among the clergy. pope emeritus Benedict XVI had to move into action, in the “notes” on the scandal of abuse that he published last April 11 —

Joseph Ratzinger On Sexual Abuse in the Church: “The Ultimate Reason Lies in the Absence of God”

after his successor Francis had kept them locked away in a drawer for two months.

Between the Two Popes There Is “Fracture.” The Silence of Francis Against Benedict

“Vox clamantis in deserto.” (Voice crying in the desert)

Locked in a drawer? Phew.