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Dec 31, 2022 · The clerical sex abuse scandal broke under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — who would later become Pope Benedict XVI — headed the Vatican’s doctrinal office,...
- Benedict Leaves Behind a Conflicted Legacy on Clerical Sexual Abuse ...
The scourge of child sexual abuse in the church haunted...
- Benedict Leaves Behind a Conflicted Legacy on Clerical Sexual Abuse ...
The scandal increased in May 2012 when Nuzzi published a book entitled His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI consisting of confidential letters and memos between Pope Benedict and his personal secretary, a controversial book that describes the Vatican as riven with jealousy, intrigue and factional fighting.
The priest sex-abuse scandal was the albatross around the neck of Pope Emeritus Benedict’s brief eight-year reign as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, according to Vatican analysts.
Former Pope Benedict XVI failed to act over four child abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich, a German probe into the Catholic Church has alleged. Pope Benedict, then called Josef...
Jan 14, 2016 · Pope Benedict XVI, in 2007, with his brother Georg Ratzinger, who, from 1964 to 1994, was the director of a Catholic boys’ choir that is the subject of a recent sex-abuse investigation.
Dec 31, 2022 · When Pope Benedict XVI stepped down in 2013, he made history, becoming the first pontiff to do so in 1600 years. He told a stunned world he did it for the good of the church. He cited...
Jan 4, 2023 · The scourge of child sexual abuse in the church haunted Benedict, from the beginning of his rise through the hierarchy to his last year as a frail, retired pope, when the Munich investigators added...
