Gay smears and the Vatican’s sex abuse summit

Holy Smoke - A podcast by The Spectator

The publication of In the Closet of the Vatican by the French gay polemicist Frédéric Martel has been meticulously timed to coincide with Pope Francis’s ‘global summit’ of bishops to discuss the sexual abuse of minors. But is it really the 'bombshell' exposé that it is billed as being? And what can we glean from the sex abuse summit this week? Damian Thompson talks to Ed Condon, canon lawyer and contributor to the Catholic Herald.

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