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  Vatican Distances Pope from Sex Scandal

Radio Netherlands
March 13, 2010

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/vatican-distances-pope-sex-scandal

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican has condemned all attempts to connect Pope Benedict XVI with a sexual abuse scandal that has erupted in Germany, his country of birth.

A Vatican representative referred to "aggressive" attempts to accuse the pontiff of turning a blind eye to the abuse, which emerged on Friday. In the 1980s, when Pope Benedict was the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, he is said to have approved housing for a priest who had molested a young boy in another archdiocese.

Vatican distances Pope from sex scandal

Although the priest reputedly underwent therapy in Munich, he quickly returned to work and abused more children. Six years later, he was given a suspended prison sentence for child sex offences.

A Vatican representative disputed the suggestion that the Pope knew all about the case and that he wanted to suppress it.

 
 

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