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	Pope Benedict Participated in the Sex Abuse Reassignments While an Archbishop. By Chris W. Politics.Gather March 13, 2010 http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978101235 GERMANY -- That's the news from NPR this morning: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2010/03_04/2010_03_13_NPR_ChildAbuse.htm The unpleasant skeleton in the closet here is that Pope Benedict, back when he was Archbishop Ratzinger, apparently was involved in the long ugly process of reassigning priests guilty of child abuse to other duties that still involved children. Ratzinger apparently signed off on at least one instance of reassigning a priest rather than defrocking him, or even assigning him to non-children duties. The result of this instance of failure to address the problem appears to have been more sex abuse activity involving the same priest. The list for Pope Benedict keeps getting longer. His predecessor, John Paul II, seemed to have worn a teflon suit on these issues- never got touched by anything bad. With Pope Benedict, it all started when the recently installed Pope made a statement that seemed to criticize Islam as a warlike religion. Then later on, Benedict reinstated a conservative Bishop who was a holocaust denier. Are we getting to the point that Benedict will deserve the nickname of "not-ready-for-primetime-Pope?" Stay tuned. Maybe they should have picked somebody younger than age 78 for this demanding job.
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