Do I think the Pope's hands are clean of guilt? hell no. Do I think this is the right route? No. But... I lack an answer as to what is the right route to take on the Vatican on this issue.
Don't worry karrie; I give you guaranty
he will be arrested in the afterlife.
If he is respected here for his position, in the afterlife there will be no respect for person, but for the belief in God alone and devoting to Him alone in addition to working good righteous work and avoiding the disobedience of God's Commandments.
This will be for all the princes or chiefs of the enthusiasm, association and atheism.
The guilt of the chief is not like the guilt of ordinary people; because a large number of people follow the chiefs of misguidance and association [because they believe he is truthful and his doctrine is correct];
and so he misleads a large number of people in stead of telling them to devote themselves to God alone and to avoid the enthusiasm about Jesus and other saints and imams.
For those who know Arabic, see this aya about the chiefs of misguidance:
تفسير سورة البقرة
I hope to translate the meaning of such ayat by God's help.
Moreover:
([Then God will say to the angels:] "Bring up those who wronged [their people] together with their wives [: the associaters] and [the devils] that they served [in the world of souls],"
"Apart from God, and direct them to the path of Hell."
"And stop them [This is the detainment]; for they are to be questioned [rebuking, not judging - concerning their followers.]"
[It will be said to them in rebuke:] "What ails you [now] that you help not one another!?"
No, indeed; but today they resign themselves in submission [to the doom.])
The above between brackets is the explanation, by Mohammed-Ali Hassan, of the Quran ayat 37: 22-26
احْشُرُوا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا وَأَزْوَاجَهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا يَعْبُدُونَ .مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ فَاهْدُوهُمْ إِلَى صِرَاطِ الْجَحِيمِ . وَقِفُوهُمْ إِنَّهُم مَّسْئُولُونَ . مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَنَاصَرُونَ . بَلْ هُمُ الْيَوْمَ مُسْتَسْلِمُونَ
