British writer Dominic Lawson has an interesting article comparing the situation of the Pope with that of Roman Polanski here.   What he observes fits nicely with the thesis that the postmodern world is one of aesthetics (forget the `linguistic turn' sideshow), and that organised religion is distasteful rather than untrue -- or rather untrue because distasteful.  And for American readers unfamiliar with English idiom, for `buggered' read `sodomised.'