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Pope’s ivory tower past adds to his detachment (AP)

April 11th, 2010

FILE - In this April 7, 2010 file photo Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than forty books and winning a devoted following of students who respected his prodigious memory and briliant mind. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than 40 books and winning a devoted following…

Pope’s preacher: Accusations akin to anti-Semitism (AP)

April 2nd, 2010

Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa delivers the Good Friday homily during a service celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, April 2, 2010. Cantalamessa, the pontiff's personal preacher, likened accusations against the pope and the Catholic church in the sex abuse scandal to 'collective violence' suffered by the Jews. The Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa said in a Good Friday homily with the pope listening in St. Peter's Basilica that a Jewish friend wrote to him to say the accusations remind him of the 'more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.' (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - At a solemn Good Friday service, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal preacher said allegations that the pontiff covered up sex abuse cases by Catholic clergymen reminded him of the…

Pope’s preacher: Abuse critique like anti-Semitism (AP)

April 2nd, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the feet-washing rite in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, Thursday April 1, 2010. The feet-washing ceremony symbolizes humility and commemorates Jesus' last supper with his 12 apostles on the evening before his Good Friday crucifixion. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Pope Benedict XVI’s personal preacher on Friday likened accusations against the pope and the Catholic church in the sex abuse scandal to “collective violence” suffered by the Jews.


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Clergy abuse threatens to tarnish pope’s legacy (AP)

March 26th, 2010

In this Monday, March 16, 1987 photo, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, appears at the Foreign Press Club in Rome. The Vatican has been on the defensive in recent days as criticism over the handling of some of the abuse probes in the United States and in Pope Benedict XVI's German homeland have threatened to engulf the papacy. Benedict, in his previous role as a Vatican-based Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, directed the Holy See office that deals with sex allegations. (AP Photo/Giulio Broglio)AP - The Vatican is facing one of its gravest crises of modern times as sex abuse scandals move ever closer to Pope Benedict XVI — threatening not only his…

Ireland: Why the Pope’s Apology May Not Be Enough (Time.com)

March 22nd, 2010

Time.com - Although Benedict berated Ireland’s bishops over their ‘mistakes’ in the sex-abuse scandal, victims’ groups say he dodged the Church’s own responsibility

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Pope’s Irish letter faces critical Catholic world (AP)

March 19th, 2010

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the Paul VI hall for his weekly general audience at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI is addressing Ireland on Saturday, March 19, 2010 in an unprecedented letter apologizing for chronic Catholic child abuse in this once-devout land. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)AP - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here — a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to…

Pope’s role in a German priest’s sex-abuse scandal (Time.com)

March 15th, 2010

The Vatican is fighting attempts to link Pope Benedict XVI, seen here, to child sex abuse with a counteroffensive against widening paedophilia scandals.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)Time.com - German Catholics are stunned at the revelations in a decades-old case that occurred under the watch of the Archbishop of Munich — now Pope Benedict XVI


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Pope’s former diocese admits error over priest (AP)

March 12th, 2010

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of Germany's bishops conference, is seen before the beginning of the spring meeting of Germany's bishops conference in Freiburg February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele/FilesAP - Pope Benedict XVI’s former German diocese said Friday it made a mistake when the pontiff was archbishop in allowing a priest suspected to have abused a child to…

Church abuse scandal reaches pope’s brother (AP)

March 10th, 2010

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also says he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir, but did nothing about it. In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse published Tuesday March 9, 2010 , he said 'repeatedly administered a slap in the face' to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.


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