It couldn’t have been released at a better time, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, director Alex Gibney’s latest documentary, which delves into the horrific scandal of child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.
A month and a day after now Emiritus Pope Benedict XVI abdicated, 115 cardinals from around the world are set to find a new pope, but unlike in 2005 there is no clear frontrunner to become the new leader of the Catholic Church.
Britain’s most senior Catholic minister, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, has resigned his position as Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh following allegations of inappropriate behaviour against priests from the 1980s.
Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he is to resign at the end of this month, saying that he is too old to continue at the age of 85, becoming the first Pope to volunteer his resignation in recent times.