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	Sex Scandal Finds Pope's Diocese By Stacy Meichtry and David Crawford The Wall Street Journal March 12, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447104575118071623303944.html?mod=googlenews_wsj VATICAN CITY—A burgeoning sex-abuse scandal among German priests escalated on Friday with a disclosure by Pope Benedict XVI's former archdiocese, which said a priest known to the church as a sex abuser had been returned to pastoral work there while Benedict was the presiding archbishop in 1980. The priest later was convicted of a fresh abuse incident within the Munich-Freising archdiocese. The archdiocese's top administrative deputy took "full responsibility" for the decision to return the priest to work, and Benedict XVI—at that time the Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger—was unaware of it despite his position, said a statement by the archdiocese. But ...
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