Man o man. We know howz well them thar sanxionz werk !!!
I at first thought Benedict XVI was more or less one of the liberal clergy who had taken over at Vatican II and I do think that at one time he was fairly liberal. But this article shows he cared about preserving the true Catholic faith (unlike other popes we could mention of recent vintage)
from the site:
Benedict's critics were often as inaccurate as they were unfair. Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times wrote in 2013 that Benedict never removed predators from the priesthood.
She was wrong.
All total, from 2005 to 2013, he defrocked some eight hundred molesting priests.
Wow... he not only sanctioned the *&^%$#s but DEFROCKED them!!
Gee... wonder why I am just now learning about this? this should have been front page news. Instead (but not surprisingly) you have to actually dig DEEP to get the facts on anything RE the Catholic Church...
Have you read the John Jay report?
I at first thought Benedict XVI was more or less one of the liberal clergy who had taken over at Vatican II and I do think that at one time he was fairly liberal. But this article shows he cared about preserving the true Catholic faith (unlike other popes we could mention of recent vintage)
from the site:
Benedict's critics were often as inaccurate as they were unfair. Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times wrote in 2013 that Benedict never removed predators from the priesthood.
She was wrong.
All total, from 2005 to 2013, he defrocked some eight hundred molesting priests.
Wow... he not only sanctioned the *&^%$#s but DEFROCKED them!!
Gee... wonder why I am just now learning about this? this should have been front page news. Instead (but not surprisingly) you have to actually dig DEEP to get the facts on anything RE the Catholic Church...
It's so easy to apply today's standards to acts that happened 40 years ago when much less was understood about recidivism rate of these gay molesters. But I notice the leftwing media is silent on the public school system which did the EXACT SAME THING in moving offenders around to other schools. What is worse is the molestation problem in public schools is not only continuing but ESCALATING. The national leftwing media is silent about it.He allowed priests to continue, without any limits on their ministry for two, after they were found guilty by the legal system.
The law firm report identified four cases in which Ratzinger was accused of misconduct in failing to act against abusers: Two cases involved priests who offended while Ratzinger was archbishop and were punished by the German legal system but were kept in pastoral ministry without any limits on their ministry. A third case involved a cleric who was convicted by a court outside Germany but was put into service in Munich; while the fourth involved a convicted pedophile priest who was allowed to transfer to Munich in 1980, and was later put into ministry. In 1986, the priest received a suspended sentence for molesting a boy.
Retired Pope Benedict doesn't admit wrongdoing for the way he handled sex abuse cases
He asked forgiveness for any "grievous faults" in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but admitted to no personal or specific wrongdoing after an independent report criticized his actions.www.npr.org
“In a total of four cases, we came to the conclusion that the then-archbishop, Cardinal Ratzinger, can be accused of misconduct,” said one of the reports’ authors, Martin Pusch.
Two of those cases, he said, involved perpetrators who offended while he was in office and were punished by the judicial system but were kept in pastoral work without express limits on what they were allowed to do. No action was ordered under canon law
In a third case, a cleric who had been convicted by a court outside Germany was put into service in the Munich archdiocese and the circumstances speak for Ratzinger having known of the priest’s previous history, Pusch said.
When the church abuse scandal first flared in Germany in 2010, attention swirled around another case: that of a pedophile priest whose transfer to Munich to undergo therapy was approved under Ratzinger in 1980.
The priest was allowed to resume pastoral work, a decision that the church has said was made by a lower-ranking official without consulting the archbishop. In 1986, the priest received a suspended sentence for molesting a boy.
Pope Benedict XVI implicated in report on sexual abuse in German diocese
A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany's Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI's handling of cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s.www.pbs.org
I hear the same thing about Pius XII not excommunicating Hitler. If he quit practicing the faith long before, what would have been the point?
