Top Vatican officials, including the future Pope Benedict XVI, did not defrock a U.S. priest who molested as many as 200 boys, even after warnings from bishops, files show.
The pope, under the claim of infallibility, cannot be guilty.
"Even as the pope himself in a recent letter to Irish Catholics has emphasized the need to cooperate with civil justice in abuse cases, the correspondence seems to indicate that the Vatican’s insistence on secrecy has often impeded such cooperation. At the same time, the officials’ reluctance to defrock a sex abuser shows that on a doctrinal level, the Vatican has tended to view the matter in terms of sin and repentance more than crime and punishment."
I have often thought it would be nice to indulge in willful ignorance.
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