Pope defended by Vatican regarding pedophile issues
The allegations against Pope involving him for the delayed action of the Church against a US pedophile priest has been the constant buzz in the news. Vatican speaks out and took a stand by defending the Pope.
A spokesman said the claims, which started from a letter signed by Benedict XVI when he was a senior Vatican official, had been blown out of proportion.
AP published a letter, signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1985, resisting Stephen Kiesle’s stripping of an honorary position.
The Vatican says that the Pope is exercising due caution before rendering an action to the priest involved.
In the said letter, Cardinal Ratzinger, who was resposible for dealing the abuse by clerics and who was also the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that the "good of the universal Church" needed to be considered in any defrocking.
A spokesman from the Vatican says that the letter was just a part of long messages and that should not be taken out of context right immediately.
"The press office doesn’t believe it is necessary to respond to every single document taken out of context regarding particular legal situations," said the spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi.
Contrary to all the accusations bombarded against the Pope, the Pope is very much willing to meet more victims that experienced clerical abuse. The Church is ready to publish an internet guide as to how the bishops treat the accusation of sexual abuse.
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