Al Jazeera, April 2010. In recent months a number of abuse claims have emerged in the US leading to increased pressure on Pope Benedict XVI to issue a public apology to the victims. In Arizona, Benedict - then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - is accused of siding with priests rather than those they are accused of abusing. Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports from the US state on a scandal that has gripped North America. It matters little to Daniel Montgomery whether Pope Benedict slowed the defrocking of a Tucson priest who he says sexually abused him when he was seven - all he knows is that he can't forget it. There's not a day that goes by I don't think about what happened to me ... everyday". Daniel received a substantial sum of money from the Diocese of Tucson after suing over sexual abuse he says took place in the confessional at Our Mother of Sorrows church by Father Michael Teta - a priest his family regarded as a friend."I can smell his breath right now and remember what it ... him breathing on me" Arizona is not the only place where Benedict is accused of siding with priests rather than those theyre accused of abusing. As Archbishop of Munich in the eighties he's said to have approved housing for a priest accused of child abuse. In the nineties hes accused of failing to act quickly enough to stop abusing some 200 boys at a school for the deaf in Wisconsin and hes also said to have resisted defrocking California priest Stephen Kiesle a convicted offender saying, "the good ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVTy6s7-pqE&hl=en
No comments:
Post a Comment