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	Letter Shows Future Pope Stalled Pedophile Case By Michael Murray ABC News April 10, 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/WN/proof-pope-resisted-defrocking-priest-accused-molesting-children/story?id=10335716 [with video] A newly discovered letter provided to the Associated Press seems to prove that the future Pope Benedict XVI resisted defrocking a California priest who had tied up and molested two young boys in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1970s. The letter signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger opposes the recommended defrocking, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church." It may be the strongest challenge yet to the Vatican's assertion that the pope played no role blocking the defrocking of pedophile priests during his years as head of the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog office. The letter, from 1985, is typed in Latin and was discovered as part of a series between the diocese of Oakland, Calif., and the Vatican on the proposed defrocking of the accused priest, the
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