“in charge at a church organization is not the same as a corporation.
His higher ups could easily have prevented any constructive actions. (think how organized religions easily replace and disregard parish councils)”
Oh, I agree with that.
Pope John Paul II could have easily told Ratzinger to look the other way when it came to his friend who was a sexual deviant.
It doesn’t absolve Ratzinger for more than 20 years of sexual abuse issues . Was he told to ignore them all??
Maybe his help with the abuse scandal is why he was made Pope.
“Father Owen Kearns, a member of the Legionaries of Christ and the editor-in-chief and publisher of the National Catholic Register, apologizes in the April 25 edition of the paper for defending his order’s founder, Father Marcial Maciel, when sexual abuse allegations against him first surfaced.
Father Kearns said he regrets that in his defense of Father Maciel he “took to task” Hartford Courant writers Renner and Jason Berry, along with the paper’s editors. ”They didn’t get everything about the Legion right but they were fundamentally correct about Father Maciel’s sexual abuse and I ask forgiveness — too late for Gerald Renner, who is deceased.”
http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/publisher-apologizes-for-defending-father-maciel/