Just because you're paranoid, as the old gag has it, doesn't mean they are not out to get you. Eight years ago Joseph Ratzinger said that press reports on paedophile priests were motivated by an 'intentional, manipulated... desire to discredit the church'. Goodness knows what he is saying privately now after the avalanche of media coverage of the clerical abuse scandals in the US and Ireland, with more to come in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands - not to mention ...