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Anaxagoras -> RE: "40 days of prayer" angers anti-Choice movement (4/16/2012 2:46:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: GotSteel
He has indeed done more than any other Pope that I'm aware of, more to aid pedophiles that is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html?pagewanted=all
I just had time to read the first article but this was 1980 when the Chruch had a very different and very bad policy. It was standard practice to get help for priests and transfer them. Obviously it was done to avoid embarassment in the Church, and there can be no excuse for what he did but in my opinion he redeemed himself by taking the issue very seriously subsequently, and at a time when few others in the Church were. He singularly brought down Maciel Degollado, a major figure in the Church which caused shockwaves.
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Prior to 2001, the primary responsibility for investigating allegations of sexual abuse and disciplining perpetrators rested with the individual dioceses. In 2001, Ratzinger convinced John Paul II to put the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in charge of all investigations and policies surrounding sexual abuse in order to combat such abuse more efficiently.[127][128] According to John L. Allen, Jr., Ratzinger in the following years "acquired a familiarity with the contours of the problem that virtually no other figure in the Catholic church can claim" and "driven by that encounter with what he would later refer to as 'filth' in the church, Ratzinger seems to have undergone something of a 'conversion experience' throughout 2003–04. From that point forward, he and his staff seemed driven by a convert's zeal to clean up the mess".[129] In his role as Head of the CFD, he "led important changes made in church law: the inclusion in canon law of internet offences against children, the extension of child abuse offences to include the sexual abuse of all under 18, the case by case waiving of the statute of limitation and the establishment of a fast-track dismissal from the clerical state for offenders."[130] As the Head of the CDF, Ratzinger developed a reputation for handling these cases. According to Charles J. Scicluna, a former prosecutor handling sexual abuse cases, "Cardinal Ratzinger displayed great wisdom and firmness in handling those cases, also demonstrating great courage in facing some of the most difficult and thorny cases, sine acceptione personarum (without exceptions)".[129][131] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI#Sexual_abuse_in_the_Catholic_Church
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