Maciel's Ghost Stalks Benedict in Mexico

By Michael Sean Winters
National Catholic Reporter
March 22, 2012

http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/maciels-ghost-stalks-benedict-mexico#.T2p4Q6aLqPQ.email

This story from the Associated Press will, to borrow a phrase from Mr. Santorum, make you want to throw up. A new book details that the Vatican received information about Father Maciel's crimes more than 50 years ago. (h/t to Rocco!)

I do want to point out one thing however. The article does not implicate Benedict in the cover-up but it leaves open the possibility. That possibility should be foreclosed. As head of the CDF, then-Cardinal ratzinger conducted the investigation of Maciel and then the apartment did nothing with it. Cardinals Sodano and Dziwicz have some answering to do but not Pope Benedict.