Pope Benedict XVI failed to stop sex abuse, law firm finds

[President Johnson]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1484195293574975491

A German law firm investigating the Catholic Church's handling of child sexual abuse cases says former Pope Benedict XVI failed to take action in four instances — including two that resulted in legal charges — while he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising.

"In a total of four cases, we reached a consensus there was a failure to act," said attorney Martin Pusch of the law firm Westphal Spilker Wastl, according to news site Deutsche Welle. Despite reports of abuse, Pusch said, the church allowed priests to continue working without restrictions.

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[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I mean, sure, we could argue that, at the time that Ratzinger was a diocesan archbishop, CSA being the uniquely malign and intolerable act that we now know it to be was not yet very well understood, either in the Church or in the secular culture. But Ratzinger/Benedict is one of the figures most associated with the idea that truth and morality do not vary based on a society's willingness to accept them. That defense isn't going to fly when it's him.

[Santander]

They didn't really need to pay a law firm €1k/hr to figure this out, but okay.

[gerritcole]

Does the pope sh**t in the woods?