That's been a longstanding complaint against that church...that secrets were kept, that priests and brothers were shuffled from one location to another to keep anyone from learning what was going on.
The Vatican is, of course, decrying the attempt in Germany to link the Pope to the scandal. After all, what is he except the guy at the top, right? And not to pick on the Cathollics...no shortage of Baptists and people of other faiths who are accused of sexual abuse.
[UPDATE: Priest close to to the Pope is suspended in abuse scandal.]
When he was Cardinal, Ratzinger was famous for being "the power behind the throne."
ReplyDeleteHe was the Rahm Emanuel of the Vatican.
The one bright spot I can see is that we are now more aware and are demanding accountability. On my blog for Jan. 29, I posted a poem I wrote back in 2002 that recounts our evolution in demanding justice:
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A slight correction, Tim.
ReplyDeleteThere is no such person as "Cardinal Benedict."
It is Pope Benedict XVI, whom was previously Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger, of Germany.
"Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of education is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism which, recognizing nothing as definitive, leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self with its desires. And under the semblance of freedom it becomes a prison for each one, for it separates people from one another, locking each person into his or her own ego."
- His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, Inaugural Address, To the Participants in the Ecclesial Diocesan Convention of Rome, in the Basilica of St John Lateran, Monday, 6 June 2005