Pedophile

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,”…

AP EXCLUSIVE: Future pope stalled pedophile case (AP)

April 9th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI blesses at the end of the Urbi et Orbi following the Easter mass in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican April 4, 2010.    REUTERS/Max RossiAP - 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,”…

Father H’s Story: Germany’s Pedophile Priest Scandal (Time.com)

March 20th, 2010

Time.com - In an interview with TIME, the psychiatrist who treated the Catholic priest accused of pedophilia describes his former patient’s attitude — then and now

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