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	Pope Linked to Cover-up in Superior Diocese Priest Case By Robin Washington and Jana Hollingsworth Duluth News Tribune March 26, 2010 http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/account:login/desturl/event/article/id/163873/ Pope Benedict XVI — or at least his immediate subordinate in his previous role as a cardinal — was made aware of an attempt to cover up the record of a Milwaukee priest reassigned to the Diocese of Superior after sexually molesting as many as 200 boys at a school for the deaf over 20 years, church records reviewed by the News Tribune show. The Reverend Lawrence Murphy, who died in 1998, was reassigned to the Superior church in 1974 after allegations of abuse going back to 1950 at St. John’s School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wis. Church records reviewed by the News Tribune show he then spent time working in the Superior Diocese at St. Anne’s in Boulder Junction, Wis., and other parishes until 1994. ... “There’s a letter on July 17, 1996, from Weakland to Ratzinger — two years before Murphy dies,” Terry McKiernan, president of Bishop Accountability, told the News Tribune from suburban Boston. “He’s informing Ratizinger because he’s assuming Ratzinger will want to be made aware of these kinds of cases.”
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