VATICAN CITY
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
Editorial
These days at the Vatican are about like the last days of a US Supreme Court session, lots of things come tumbling out in rapid succession.
In the Vatican’s dash to head for the hills, literally, for cooler weather, the announcement was made of the new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
He is Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller. He is German. He is the Bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria. He is the editor of the 16 volume work in progress “Complete Works of Joseph Ratzinger. He’s had, according to news reports, a long standing friendship with Gustavo Guttierez, the Peruvian Dominican who is the founder of the Liberation Theology movement.
But we think the most significant thing about him is that when he had the chance to protect children and deal directly and forthrightly with a parish and everyone else, he chose to reinstate a priest, Peter Kramer, in 2004 after Kramer’s conviction in 2000 for sexual abuse.
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