The “Pastoral Letter” of Benedict XVI to the Irish, the Vatican released Saturday, is the first paper on pedophilia of a pope and confirms the willingness of the Church in the last decade to break the wall of silence, say several Vaticanists .
The so-called policy of silence, followed for decades by the Vatican, was obeyed even by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI, according to German press reports accusing him of having hosted in 1980 in the diocese of Munich to a priest history of child sexual abuse to undergo therapy.
The priest was later transferred to a parish without Ratzinger, the largest local authority, be informed and returned to transgress.
The case illustrates the attitude of the Catholic hierarchy until it erupted in 2000 many serious pedophilia scandals in the U.S.. js
With information from: univison.com