Benedict was vigorously getting rid of the abusers when he was in charge of church discipline (prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.) He had to convince the pope (John Paul II) that the stories in the news (2002) were true, not just gratuitous attacks on the church. Slowly, JPII became convinced of the imbedded serial abusers in the Church.
The Catholic faithful will be in any second to frantically mash the down bite button. 😂
Benedict was vigorously getting rid of the abusers when he was in charge of church discipline (prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.) He had to convince the pope (John Paul II) that the stories in the news (2002) were true, not just gratuitous attacks on the church. Slowly, JPII became convinced of the imbedded serial abusers in the Church.
He lied about more than the one case, which he blames on an editing problem. The article goes on to state there was 4.
But he's sorry, so cool, that should be enough right?
Not. Even. Close