WALSH: What Satan Is Doing In The Catholic Church

Pope Francis broke his silence on Tuesday and offered a stinging condemnation not of the predators or the Bishops who cover for them, but of the “accusers.” Fashioning the poor bishops as the victims in this saga, he said:

In these times, it seems like the “Great Accuser” has been unchained and is attacking bishops. True, we are all sinners, we bishops. He tries to uncover the sins, so they are visible in order to scandalize the people. The “Great Accuser,’” as he himself says to God in the first chapter of the Book of Job, “roams the earth looking for someone to accuse.”