03/27/2010
NEW YORK. The New York Times raised the scandal of pedophilia and is once again embarrassed the Vatican: Pope Benedict XVI had been kept, when he was Archbishop of Monaco In 1980, the return of Father Peter Hullerman to work in a parish despite allegations of sexual harassment.
Immediate reaction of the Holy See spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi : The future Pope "did not know of the decision to replace the H in pastoral parish priest. Every other version is mere speculation."
The new charges, according to The New York Times, however, suggest that Ratzinger had been put aside, more than previously admitted, the case of the priest in Essen. The newspaper said the future pope was sent a copy of a memorandum informing him that Father H. had been sent to do pastoral work in the diocese of Monaco despite that only a few days before had begun to heal from a psychiatrist. The New York Times admitted that it is not clear if the future pope had actually seen the memo.
Father Lorenz Wolf, judicial vicar of the archdiocese, said that "it is unlikely that the document has arrived on the desk of the Archbishop," though he added that it could not rule out that Ratzinger has read. H
Father sentenced to 18 months for pedophilia in 1986, after the transfer continued to molest boys for years in new parishes. In the memorandum, dated January 20, 1980 at the New York Times and confirmed by two ecclesiastical sources, please be informed that Father Hullerman was reassigned to pastoral duties, despite that five days earlier at a meeting of Diocesan Council, chaired by Ratzinger, had spoken of his case - a priest in need of psychiatric assistance - validating the move to Monaco.
yesterday's article responds to the accusations of the same New York Times have covered up to Benedict XVI, when he was Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the case of Lawrence Murphy, a priest accused of molestation in Wisconsin du 200 children deaf and dumb in a college in Milwaukee.
The Vatican, which had reacted with outrage, he mentioned yesterday, the archdiocese announced last week of Monaco had taken full responsibility for the case in the hands of Hullerman Ratzinger's deputy at the time, the Reverend Gerhard Gruber.
"The article - said Father Lombardi - does not contain any new information."
Meanwhile, the controversy continues in the corridors of the Vatican religious quoted by 'Time' spoke of an attack targeted the New York newspaper: "They do it for bias. You should ask why they did not write one line on the sentencing of a few days Rabbi of Brooklyn for pedophilia. But an attack on the Church does smell blood, "said the envoy of the week a senior official in the Vatican, the Holy See protected by anonymity.
"The allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church is a serious matter as the Vatican has recognized on many occasions and the role that the Pope may have had in the reaction to these allegations over the years is a significant part of history, "replied the spokesman for the New York Times Diane McNulty's article yesterday reiterating that it is" fruit of a meticulous journalistic work. So far no one has questioned the facts of which we have written. "
The scandal of pedophilia in the meantime goes around the world, including the Irish singer Sinead O'Connor urging a criminal investigation on Ratzinger and the British polemicist Christopher Hitchens that arrives at the ABCNews suggest the arrest of Pope Benedict in the fall when going on a pastoral visit to London.
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