[kj] Hitler...Youth...the pope?

[Jim Harper]

http://web.archive.org/web/20020607141945/http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_Vatican_coverup_020426.html

Sorry the URL is so long. It's an article from 2002, accusing Ratzinger of covering up child abuse cases involving very high-ranking priests. There's plenty more about Father Maciel (a Mexican priest accused many times) if you want to go dig it up, but it seems fairly conclusive that Ratzinger preferred not to investigate the charges.
 
Jim Harper. 

melinda grant <hollytree1961 at hotmail.com> wrote:
jim--if it is part of the comforsation,then it is relavant to ...dig up a 
few points from this new popes past....bak traking on events, is a better 
way 4 all to get a full view of the whole event, here in the present--any 
way,by what u said,it seems that the new pope is up to his neck in it....

mel london uk

>From: Jim Harper 
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
>
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
>
>Subject: Re: [kj] Hitler...Youth...the pope?
>Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:53:17 +0100 (BST)
>
>A valid point. Besides, the man has recent (and serious) crimes upon his 
>head: there's no need to dig up events from that long ago.
>
>Jim Harper.
>
>Dave Noonan wrote:
>Mel - Dave2 has beaten me to it - joining the Hitler Youth was compulsory 
>for a child of the Pope's age and I can only imagine how severe the 
>consequences may have been for those who did not participate. We can sit 
>cosy with the benefit of hindsight and berate someone for making those 
>choices without ourselves having to face the consequences, all I have read 
>states he was not a particularly willing participant so I am not going to 
>beat him with that particular stick – it is a smokescreen over the real 
>issues of his view on the world today.
>
>Dave
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