The Hitch and The Pope

Quel surprise: Christopher Hitchens, the man who wrote “The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice,” wasn’t a fan of Pope John Paul II. In his rambling invective on Slate, Hitchens meanders from Cardinal Law to Terri Schiavo to the Kennedys, Tariq Aziz, Henry Luce, Maureen Dowd, and, uh, Josef Stalin (Does anyone edit this guy?) His point—and he does have one, somewhere—is that the Pope was complacent in the Church’s appalling sex-abuse scandal (or, “child-rape racket” as Hitch says).