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  Ratzinger and Hullermann

By Leon J. Podles
Dialogue
March 14, 2010

http://www.podles.org/dialogue/ratzinger-and-hullermann-299.htm

Ratzinger’s action or inaction led to a child being molested.

Sometimes before 1980 the Rev. Peter Hullermann plied a boy with alcohol and then molested him. The parents went to the diocese, who told them not to go to the police, that the case would be handled inside the Church, and that Hullermann would never work with children again (Number 3 Lie after The check is in the mail and I will love you in the morning).

In 1980 the diocese of Essen sent Hullermann to Munich for treatment. Ratzinger, as archbishop, allowed him to live in a rectory. This is Ratzinger’s last involvement with the case that the Vatican admits.

 
 

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