Post by Administration on Mar 26, 2010 17:57:17 GMT
French bishops, children in Italy, Ratzinger implicated over deaf cases in the US
French bishops 'ashamed' of priests who molest
Suspicion is now cast on all Catholic clergy, letter says
Last Updated: Friday, March 26, 2010 | 11:34 AM ET
CBC News
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/26/vatican-sex-abuse.html#ixzz0jJ3pEkGD
Scandal taints clergy in Italy
Meanwhile, the Vatican has yet to address directly another child sex abuse scandal in Europe bearing similarities to a case in Wisconsin involving deaf children.
Dozens of deaf men and women in Italy are alleging that priests and others in the church sexually assaulted them over several years.
The Associated Press reported Friday that only now, a year after the case became public, is the Vatican directing the diocese to interview the alleged victims to hear the complaints.
In a signed statement last year, the 67 former pupils at a school for the deaf in Verona described sexual abuse, pedophilia and corporal punishment from the 1950s to the 1980s.
They named 24 priests, church brothers and lay religious men at the Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf.
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Ratzinger copied on memo: report
Benedict has also come under pressure over a case dating back to his time as archbishop in his native Germany.
The Munich archdiocese has said Ratzinger was involved in a 1980 decision to allow a German priest who had been accused of abusing boys, Rev. Peter Hullermann, to be transferred there for therapy.
However, Ratzinger's then-deputy, Gerhard Gruber, said earlier this month he took full responsibility for a subsequent decision to allow the priest to return to pastoral duties.
Hullermann was convicted in 1986 of sexual abuse during a later posting. The New York Times reported Friday that the future pope was copied on a memo saying the priest would quickly be returned to pastoral work, and that church officials could not rule out that Ratzinger read it.
French bishops 'ashamed' of priests who molest
Suspicion is now cast on all Catholic clergy, letter says
Last Updated: Friday, March 26, 2010 | 11:34 AM ET
CBC News
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/26/vatican-sex-abuse.html#ixzz0jJ3pEkGD
Scandal taints clergy in Italy
Meanwhile, the Vatican has yet to address directly another child sex abuse scandal in Europe bearing similarities to a case in Wisconsin involving deaf children.
Dozens of deaf men and women in Italy are alleging that priests and others in the church sexually assaulted them over several years.
The Associated Press reported Friday that only now, a year after the case became public, is the Vatican directing the diocese to interview the alleged victims to hear the complaints.
In a signed statement last year, the 67 former pupils at a school for the deaf in Verona described sexual abuse, pedophilia and corporal punishment from the 1950s to the 1980s.
They named 24 priests, church brothers and lay religious men at the Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf.
__________
Ratzinger copied on memo: report
Benedict has also come under pressure over a case dating back to his time as archbishop in his native Germany.
The Munich archdiocese has said Ratzinger was involved in a 1980 decision to allow a German priest who had been accused of abusing boys, Rev. Peter Hullermann, to be transferred there for therapy.
However, Ratzinger's then-deputy, Gerhard Gruber, said earlier this month he took full responsibility for a subsequent decision to allow the priest to return to pastoral duties.
Hullermann was convicted in 1986 of sexual abuse during a later posting. The New York Times reported Friday that the future pope was copied on a memo saying the priest would quickly be returned to pastoral work, and that church officials could not rule out that Ratzinger read it.