Pope John Paul II ignored Ratzinger's pleas to pursue sex abuse cardinal

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From Damian Thompson at the Telegraph:

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger tried to persuade Pope John Paul II to mount a full investigation into a cardinal who abused boys and young monks, one of the Church’s most senior figures revealed yesterday. But Ratzinger’s opponents in the Vatican managed to block the inquiry. As the future Benedict XVI put it: “The other side won.”
The pervert cardinal was the late Hans Hermann Groer, removed as Archbishop of Vienna in 1995 following sex allegations. The source for the story is Groer’s successor in Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, an intellectual whom some commentators have tipped as a possible future Pope.
Of course, as Damian says, that doesn’t fit the script, so you won’t be seeing much of that kind of information elsewhere.
 
Interesting, especially in light of the on-going scandals.
 
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