text: And they wonder why they are losing parishioners in Europe and around the world. Nothing's changed with this Pope, it's business as usual. When the U.N. some years back, asked the Vatican to open up the records on the thousands of children world-wide that were abused, Pope Francis refused, just like this case, he said they'd handle it 
  
  
  Problem is, the Vatican, from the child sexual abuse to a very healthy, or so it seems today, Pope Benedict stepping down after a close aide destroyed his Papacy with release of the Vatican banking papers, has lost most if not all creditability any more. I hear many of its beautiful cathedrals are so diminished of patronage, several may have to close in Europe. The election of the new Pope has done nothing to remove the stain, it only grows and reveals more.
  
  Canonize more Saints, liberalize, whatever, but the hits just keep on coming for the Western Church and the Vatican. God humbles the most powerful, even as the wolf now ravages the elect today.