Hamburg "Spiegel" cited in its Monday edition the supposedly incriminating document in the case of a pedophile clergyman.
Vatican (kath.net/KAP) Vatican Speaker Federico Lombardi has rejected the allegation, there is a new one, that an incriminating document in the case of a pedophile clergyman from his time as Archbishop of Munich. There are no new findings in this matter, said Lombardi this Saturday for journalists in Rome. He admonished a report from the Archdiocese of Munich, and also made his earlier statement on the case of the Munich chaplain from the March of this year.
The German periodical, "Der Spiegel" reported in its edition appearing Monday from a letter of the year of 1980 in which a chaplain moved from the Diocese of Essen to Munich because of child abuse, and then had been shifted in an assignment as pastor by then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger. The chaplain had been assigned in this letter and in the parish newsletter, from which it also happens, said that he had a lot of contact in a ministerial capacity with adolescents and children, this is according to information from the earlier Munich community of the clergyman.
The Archdiocese of Munich made it clear that the current Pope had no knowledge of the Essen Chaplain's reassignment to a pastoral role in Munich. Under Ratzinger's initiative it was agreed upon in 1980, to restrict the chaplain to a rectory, so that he could receive therapy, disclosed the Archdiocese. Deviating from this decision the current Vicar General Gerhard Gruber had in any case attached the man to a Munich pastoral care. In the mean time, the retired Gruber had assumed full responsibility for this decision.
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2 comments:
This is an old story. When are these crazy journalists going to stop banging the same tin bucket?
They do what they're told.
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