Pope Didn't Know about Holocaust denial

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This is exactly the point I was making. The Vatican needs to do a better job on these matters and this means some rather drastic reforms.

I don’t think drastic reforms are really necessary - just choosing as heads of dicasteries those who are more attentive to public opinion. Or perhaps having the PR team look over every announcement before it comes out of the Vatican - which should have been an obvious move from the start. They’ve shown they can do it - recall the careful and generally successful release of the motu proprio, which was many months in planning.

By the way, I am impressed with your thread so far. In the past whenever anyone called into question the current pope’s lack of skill in public relations, the predominant response was that the pope doesn’t need or care about PR. That we haven’t really seen that attitude in this thread suggests either that people are finally seeing the danger in ignoring PR, or maybe just that those critics talked themselves out in the many other SSPX bishops threads.

Did John Paul have the same problem? I don’t recall any major stumbles during his pontificate, other than his ineffective response to the priest sex abuse problem. He certainly said and did some unpopular things, just as Benedict has, but it’s one thing to choose to do something you know will be unpopular, it’s another thing to take an action, completely ignorant that it could be unpopular.