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Cardinals defend pope on church sex abuse scandal (AP)

April 1st, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI holds up the Holy Gospel as he celebrates a Chrism Mass, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Thursday, April 1, 2010. Benedict XVI urged priests to oppose violence as he led a ceremony dedicated to the priesthood Thursday, marking a Holy Week with his church buffeted by clergy sex abuse scandals. The Chrism Mass marks the start of the Easter celebrations. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Cardinals across Europe used their Holy Thursday sermons to defend Pope Benedict XVI from accusations he played a role in covering up sex abuse scandals, and an increasingly…

Pope sees sex scandal as test; bishops urge reform (AP)

March 31st, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI handles a staff with crucifix during a memorial Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, Monday, March 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Pope Benedict XVI sees the priestly sex scandal as a “test for him and the church,” his spokesman said Wednesday, as bishops around Europe used Holy Week’s solemn…

Top Vatican cardinal defends pope amid scandal (AP)

March 27th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI gestures from his popemobile as he leaves a youth gathering, in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Thursday, March 25, 2010. The Vatican on Thursday strongly defended its decision not to defrock an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides. Church and Vatican documents showed that in the mid-1990s, two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now the pope, to let them hold a church trial against the Rev. Lawrence Murphy. The bishops admitted the trial was coming years after the alleged abuse, but argued that the deaf community in Milwaukee was demanding justice from the church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - A top Vatican cardinal is calling for “housecleaning” and urging the Roman Catholic Church to be more alert and brave in dealing with cases of clerical sex abuse.


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Sex abuse scandal in US, Italy taints papacy (AP)

March 25th, 2010

Members of the SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priest) , display a photo of Pope Benedict XVI when he was cardinal during a press conference in front of The Vatican Thursday, March 25, 2010. Two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger now Pope Benedict XVI to let them conduct a church trial against a priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys, but the Vatican ordered the process halted, church and Vatican documents show. Despite the grave allegations, Ratzinger's deputy at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that the alleged molestation had occurred too long ago and the accused priest, Rev. Lawrence Murphy, should instead repent and be restricted from celebrating Mass outside of his diocese. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Revelations that the Vatican halted the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys have eerie echoes in Italy, where 67 deaf men and…

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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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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Vatican denies celibacy rule led to sex scandal (AP)

March 14th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful from his studio's window at the end of the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - The Vatican on Sunday denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again…

Bishop: Pope dismayed at clerical abuse scandal (AP)

March 12th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI looks on during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Pope has appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria between Christians and Muslims that has taken more than 200 lives. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Germany’s top bishop briefed Pope Benedict XVI on the spiraling cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff’s native Germany on Friday and said the pope encouraged him…

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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