Pope Benedict XVI’s private secretary, Georg Gänswein, claims a recent report on abuse in the German Catholic Church has fuelled a long-running campaign against the retired pontiff. “There is a current that wants to destroy the person and the work,” Gänswein said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published on Wednesday. The German prelate argued that certain people had never been fond of Benedict’s person, theology or his reign as pope. For critics, now is “the ideal opportunity to settle accounts” and curse the pope’s memory, the 65-year-old claimed, adding, “Unfortun…