What's worse is the desperation with which the collective media is engaging this problem, they couldn't find a great deal of sexual abuse associated with the Msgr Ratzinger's school, so they want to harp about the alleged physical abuse.
[Reuters] Rev. Georg Ratzinger, 86, made the comments to a German paper following charges of sexual and physical abuse in Catholic schools in the pope's native Bavaria. Sexual abuse scandals have also rocked the church in the United States and Ireland.
"Pupils told me on concert trips about what went on. But it didn't dawn on me from their stories that I should do something. I was not aware of the extent of these brutal methods," Ratzinger told the Passauer Neue Presse.
"If I had known about the excess of force he was using, I would have said something ... I ask the victims for forgiveness," said Ratzinger who led the "Regensburger Domspatzen," or Regensburg Cathedral Sparrows, the official choir for the Regensburg diocese, from 1964 to 1994.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6282UR20100309
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