Allegations have surfaced in the US that Pope Benedict failed to take action before his election as pontiff in yet another serious case of clerical paedophilia which has just come to light, this time at a school for deaf children in the state of Wisconsin.
The case has been confirmed by the Vatican. The Pope’s spokesman, however, defended the pontiff’s silence on the grounds that the Vatican department responsible for disciplining errant priests, formerly headed by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, had not been informed until 1996 – 20 years after the priest’s victims first informed the police.
Hardly a day goes by without new cases of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests somewhere in the world being reported in the media.
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BBC–Pressure grows on Pope over handling of abuse cases
Allegations have surfaced in the US that Pope Benedict failed to take action before his election as pontiff in yet another serious case of clerical paedophilia which has just come to light, this time at a school for deaf children in the state of Wisconsin.
The case has been confirmed by the Vatican. The Pope’s spokesman, however, defended the pontiff’s silence on the grounds that the Vatican department responsible for disciplining errant priests, formerly headed by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, had not been informed until 1996 – 20 years after the priest’s victims first informed the police.
Hardly a day goes by without new cases of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests somewhere in the world being reported in the media.
Read it all.