Thursday, March 25, 2010

Der Popenfuhrer gets his own direct link

To a Wisconsin priestly kiddie diddle. This one is probably a near record as well. While Ratzi was not one of the molesters he certainly did not give any indication that he disapproved.
Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.

The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was protecting the church from scandal.
The report by the NY Times does a good job of showing all that is wrong with with the Catholic Church's handling of pedophile priests, from the complicity of the hierarchy to the transfer of pedophile priests to new pastures of innocents.

// posted by montag @ 12:47 PM
Comments:
At the time Ratzi was head of the Office of the Inquisition, charged with ferreting out heresy and anti-doctrinal behavior amongst the Catholic clergy. It was his responsibility to maintain discipline amongst the clergy. Rather than address the problem, he instead engaged in long-winded rants about how the problem of kiddie-molestin' priests was an American problem caused by the immorality of Americans. Now that we know that priests in Ireland, Germany, and Australia (at the very least) were engaged in the same behavior, I think the Papenfuhrer owes us Americans an apology... I expect to get it when Hell freezes over, though.

- Badtux the Former-Catholic Penguin
# posted by Blogger BadTux : 3:14 PM
 

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