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Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys - NYTime
The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was protecting the church from scandal. The documents emerge as Pope Benedict is facing other accusations that he and direct subordinates often did not alert civilian authorities or discipline priests involved in sexual abuse when he served as an archbishop in Germany and as the ’s chief doctrinal enforcer. The Wisconsin case involved an American priest, the Rev. Lawrence C.Par ERIC JOZSEF Rome, de notre correspondant Orbi et maintenant urbi.

