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rip1980 t1_j2encyu wrote

A report published in January 2022 found that he knew about priests who abused children but failed to act when he was archbishop of Munich from 1977 to1982.

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JJohnston015 t1_j2flwb5 wrote

Not only did he fail to act, he anticipated that there would be secular law enforcement investigations, and he threatened to excommunicate, not anybody who was found to have committed the alleged acts, but anybody who "talked".

Edit: the Vatican actually made that threat as early as 1962:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/17/religion.childprotection

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gently_into_the_dark t1_j2fwx3m wrote

So perhaps ur entire comment is invalid?

Why blame him and not the pope then?

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