BERLIN – Retired Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that he did wait on a 1980 assembly at which the transfer of a pedophile priest to his then-diocese was once discussed, pronouncing an editorial error was once in charge for his old assertion that he wasn’t there.
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Authors of a document on sexual abuse between 1945 and 2019 in the Munich archdiocese, which Benedict — then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — led from 1977 to 1982, on Thursday faulted his facing of four instances throughout his time as archbishop and acknowledged his direct that he wasn’t at the assembly lacked credibility.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI attends a Mass before the outlet of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, formally starting up the Jubilee of Mercy, at the Vatican, on Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Picture/Gregorio Borgia, File)
Benedict, who supplied lengthy written testimony, denies any wrongdoing on his portion.
One case eager the transfer to Munich of a priest to endure treatment, which was once accepted beneath Ratzinger in 1980.
The priest was once allowed to resume pastoral work, a option that the church has acknowledged was once made by a decrease-rating legit without consulting the archbishop. In 1986, the priest bought a suspended sentence for molesting a boy.
In an announcement to Germany’s KNA Catholic files agency on Monday, Benedict’s longtime secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, acknowledged the retired pope wants to account for that he was once in fact at January 1980 assembly of native church officials in which the priest’s transfer to Munich was once discussed. He acknowledged Benedict apologizes for the error.
“He would bask in to stress that this didn’t occur out of any terrible intent, but was once the consequence of a mistake in the editorial processing of his disclose,” Gaenswein acknowledged.
Gaenswein wired, nonetheless, no option on the priest resuming pastoral work was once made at the assembly and that it handiest accepted him being build up in Munich throughout his treatment.
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Gaenswein added that Benedict is peaceable reading fastidiously via the document and could perhaps well need some time to carry out doing so. He added that there will probably be an announcement from the broken-down pope on the document and that it moreover will spell out how the false assertion about the assembly came about.
The disclose to KNA was once reported by the Vatican’s in-dwelling Vatican News portal.
