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Retired Pope Benedict XVI requested for forgiveness after a latest report criticized his dealing with of clergy intercourse abuse instances.
What occurred: Again in January, a German investigation accused Pope Benedict XVI of “wrongdoing” in his dealing with of sexual abuse instances throughout his time on the archdiocese of Munich from 1977 to 1982, as I reported for the Deseret information.
- In these instances, “he knowingly accepted a priest into his archdiocese even after the cleric had been convicted of sexual abuse in a felony courtroom,” in accordance with The Washington Publish.
- Per BBC Information, the report alleged the abuse occurred when Benedict was on the archdiocese and whereas the accused monks had lively church roles.
The apology: “I've had nice tasks within the Catholic Church. All of the larger is my ache for the abuses and the errors that occurred in these totally different locations in the course of the time of my mandate,” the retired pope stated, in accordance with NBC Information.
- “And I've come to grasp that we ourselves are drawn into this grievous fault at any time when we neglect it or fail to confront it with the required decisiveness and duty, as too usually occurred and continues to occur,” he wrote. “As in these conferences, as soon as once more I can solely categorical to all of the victims of sexual abuse my profound disgrace, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt admission of guilt.”
- Benedict stated he had “seen at first hand the results of a most grievous fault.”
One word to go: Benedict’s legislation consultants stated the latest allegations “accommodates no proof for an allegation of misconduct or conspiracy in any cover-up” by the previous pope, in accordance with The New York Instances.