Pope's critics leave out much of what he says

In an interview with the conservative daily Dziennik the former archbishop of Gdansk, Tadeusz Gocłowski, defends Pope Benedict XVI against his detractors: "Those who demand that he renounce his position are by and large not people who go to church. And there will always be sensation-seekers. Take, for example, the Pope's recent visit to Africa. The Pope addressed the problem of poverty on this continent, which has many causes: the climate, post-colonialism, Aids. The journalists reduced this quite dramatically to the use of contraceptives. … To understand the problem one only needs to read the Pope's homily or the speeches he delivered in both Cameroon and Angola. This voice obviously didn't reach the people. It didn't convince them. And the loss of confidence in the Pope is a fact, even if it doesn't exist in Poland."

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