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	Archbishop Robert Carlson on the Abuse Crisis in Europe By Tim Townsend St. Louis Post-Dispatch April 3, 2010 http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/keepthefaith/story/42FA0A20521DC5AC862576F9007FF9BC?OpenDocument For weeks, the Vatican has been under seige as accusations of clergy sexual abuse of minors has spread through Europe. Reports in The New York Times have suggested that in the 1980s, when Pope Benedict XVI was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, he failed to keep one abusive priest away from children. The Times also reported that in 1996, Ratzinger, while heading a Vatican office that dealt with clergy abuse, did not respond to pleas from Milwaukee's archbishop about an abusive priest there. The Vatican denied this week that the pope was culpable, and other church leaders have rallied around him. In a statement he gave after Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan cited a "tidal wave of headlines," containing "unrelenting insinuations against the Holy Father himself, as certain sources seem almost frenzied to implicate the man."
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