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JJohnston015 t1_j2flwb5 wrote

Reply to comment by rip1980 in TIL Pope Benedict XVI at 95 was the longest lived Pope in History. by TheMadhopper

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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