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AP: Future pope stalled pedophile case (AP)

April 10th, 2010

Maurine Behrend reads a letter she sent to church authorities regarding convicted sex offender and former priest Stephen Kiesle, who was volunteering in her church's youth ministry in the 1980's, at her home in San Ramon, Calif., Thursday, April 8, 2010. A letter obtained by the Associated Press and bearing the signature of future Pope Benedict XVI shows then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger resisted defrocking Kiesle, who had a record of sexually molesting children, after his case had languished for four years at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including “the good of the universal church,” according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.


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