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	Mother of Sex Abuse Victim Says Pope Is "Lying" By Russell Goldman and Clark Bentson ABC News March 25, 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/WN/TheLaw/pope-defrock-priest-admitted-molesting-deaf-boys/story?id=10200159 Wisconsin Lawsuit Claims Priest Molested 200 Deaf Boys; Current Pope Was Alerted Senior Vatican officials, including the current pope, refused to punish a priest who sexually assaulted as many as 200 deaf boys over the course of three decades, despite calls for disciplinary measures from two American bishops. Documents from a lawsuit brought by the priest's now adult victims against the Milwaukee Diocese, and initially obtained by the New York Times, record the Rev. Lawrence Murphy admitting to diocese officials in the 1990s that he molested dozens of boys while working at St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wisc., for 25 years from 1950 to 1975. The documents also include letters during the 1990s from two Wisconsin bishops to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, asking for permission to prosecute Murphy in a church trial. Ratzinger at the time headed the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's disciplinary office.
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