A Disturbing Cartoon
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In the wake of the Catholic Church’s child-molestation scandal, Michael Ramirez’s tasteless editorial cartoon (Commentary, April 21) depicting newly elected Pope Benedict XVI dragging a resistant little boy labeled “liberal Catholics” away by the ear is quite disturbing. Is Ramirez aware that three years ago, the then-Cardinal Ratzinger dismissed the scandal as a “planned campaign” by the media to “discredit the church”?
Larry George
Santa Monica
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