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In the face of searing critique over a major sex scandal, the Vatican has issued defenses ranging from denial (the Pope didn’t know about it!) to offensive pleas (what we’re going through is like anti-semitism!)
Watch satirist Mark Fiore take on the papal PR machine below:
