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BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

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New York Times: stoking anti-Catholic flames
by William Donohue : Friday, March 26, 2010

"Pope Was Told Pedophile Priest Would Get Transfer." That's the headline in today's New York Times piece on the pope. Yet the Times offers absolutely no evidence to support this charge. All it says is that his office "was copied on a memo" about the transfer of Peter Hullermann. According to Church officials, the story says the memo was routine and was "unlikely to have landed on the archbishop's desk."

Let's say Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, now the pope, did in fact learn of the transfer. So what? Wasn't that what he expected to happen? After all, we know from a March 16 Times story that when Ratzinger's subordinates recommended therapy for Hullermann, he approved it. That was the drill of the day: after being treated, the patient (I prefer the term offender) returns to work. It's still the drill of the day in many secular quarters today, particularly in the public schools. A more hard-line approach, obviously, makes more sense, but the therapeutic industry is very powerful.

In other words, there is no real news in today's news story. So why print it? To keep the flame alive. Look for the Times to run another story saying they have proof Ratzinger knew of the transfer. Did they think that after he approved the therapy that Hullermann would be sent to the Gulag?

Yesterday's Times story on the half-century old case concerning Father Lawrence Murphy will be the subject of an op-ed page ad in Tuesday's New York Times. Meanwhile, I am taking advantage of every TV opportunity to set the record straight. The pope is a great man, and the Catholic League is proud to stand by him.

www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=29767



See what happens when even the president of the Catholic League in the United States uses the New York Times as a primary news source???

"After all, we know from a March 16 Times story that when Ratzinger's subordinates recommended therapy for Hullermann, he approved it. That was the drill of the day: after being treated, the patient (I prefer the term offender) returns to work."

The Archbishop did not approve the therapy - the priest was sent to Munich from another diocese for the therapy. The only decision Cardi-Ratzi made was to agree to give him parish lodgings during the therapy!

And if the 'drill' Donohue refers to means it was SOP at the time to think nothing of assigning priests to pastoral work despite alleged or proven sex offenses, then yes, the Archbishop's Vicar who assigned Hullermann to pastoral work was acting according to what was apparently the prevailing Church culture or practice - until the US scandals called that whole culture into question!

But even if that was SOP then, one cannot imagine Joseph Ratzinger at any time thinking that a known sex offender should be allowed to work with children, much less approve such an assignment.

TERESA




[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 26/03/2010 21:14]
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