Oops that former Cardinal Stalled Pedophile case

[malaise]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/09/AR2010040903109.html
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The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.

The correspondence, obtained by The Associated Press, is the strongest challenge yet to the Vatican's insistence that Benedict played no role in blocking the removal of pedophile priests during his years as head of the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog office.

The letter, signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was typed in Latin and is part of years of correspondence between the Diocese of Oakland and the Vatican about the proposed defrocking of the Rev. Stephen Kiesle.

The Vatican refused to comment on the contents of the letter Friday, but a spokesman confirmed it bore Ratzinger's signature.
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And the Vatican press are stalling today with this bombshell. He's history!

[mzteris]

1. but but but - isn't the pope

supposed to be infallible or something?

[WeDidIt]

2. He wasn't Pope back then

I guess that infallible stuff doesn't kick in until he gets his very fine hat.

[malaise]

4. DUzy

:rofl:

[damntexdem]

6. Yeah, and besides the letter was in a foreign language: Latin.

And a dead language, at that. ;-)

[mikelgb]

3. Maybe my April Fool will be a Cinco de Mayo Miracle?

[Rageneau]

5. Seems that BartCop was right to label this Pope, "Benny the Rat."

Bart saw through this guy from the get-go.

[damntexdem]

7. How was that possible with the guy who ran the Inquisition?

I mean the organization that's the Inquistion's successor -- the Dogma of the Prostitution of the Faith, or whatever it's called?

;-)