Papal issues

Three key issues are shaping up as crucial in the next papal election, according to George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II.

The key issues are:

1. Collapsing Catholicism in Europe
2. Radical Islam
3. Biotechnology

I would wager that many Irish and American Catholics would have presumed that child sex abuse by priests and religious would be top of the list.