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Good morning. What did he know? New questions this morning about Pope Benedict’s handling of two pedophile priests and whether as a cardinal, he let them both off the hook. The Vatican calls it a smear campaign인신공격. But do newly uncovered memos tell a different story? From NBC News, this is TODAY with Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira live from studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza.
Today the Vatican is on the defensive as new questions emerge about Pope Benedict. And what he knew about two priests caught up in pedophilia scandals years ago. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk casts the latest on these stories. She’s been covering in all weeks. Stephanie, good morning.
Good morning, Anne. There’s a new potentially damaging report in the New York Times this morning that Pope Benedict was more closely involved in mishandling of a pedophile priest in Munich in 1980 than the Vatican says, he was. According to the paper, a memo sent to the Pope’s office indicated that Reverend Peter Holliman had been returned to regular pastoral work in Munich just days after being transferred from his previous post for psychological treatment.
Psychiatrists said Holliman was a danger to children. The priest was later convicted from molestation. It is one of two allegations that have surfaced in the last two weeks implicating the Pope in a scandal that is growing bigger and bigger by the day. An adoring crowd of young Catholics greeted Pope Benedict in St. Peter’s Square while allegations about his involvement in the mishandling of a pedophile priest case in Wisconsin made headlines around the world.
Reverend Rolense Murphy molested as many as 200 young boys at St. John’s school for the deaf from 1950 to 1974. “He assaulted this child here, this child here.” Arthur Virginki was 12 when the abuse began! “His innocence was stolen from him!” 1996, 20 years after Murphy was removed from his job, The archbishop of Milwaukee wrote to Pope Benedict, then Cardinal Johseph Ratzinger, asking to reopen a church investigation! Cardinal Ratzinger didn’t reply!
The case was briefly reopened until reverend Murphy wrote to Ratzinger pleading for mercy! “I’m in poor health! I have repented후회하다 of any of my past transgressions범죄 위반.” Ratzinger ordered the case be dropped, Murphy died later that year. On the Wisconsin case, the Vatican hit back hard! The official newspaper call this story “a clear and despicable치사한 attempt to strike at this Pope at any cost!”