The Guardian writes: “Groups supporting clergy-molestation survivors say they are gravely concerned and insulted by the election of Pope Leo XIV after he overcame questions about his handling of clerical sexual abuse cases earlier in his career to become the Roman Catholic church’s first-ever US-born leader.”
In an article of 20 January, 2022, the Guardian wrote: “The former pope Benedict XVI failed to act against four priests accused of child sexual abuse when he was archbishop of Munich, a German investigation has claimed.”
The new Pope Leo XIV and the previous Pope Benedict XVI (who retired early) face very similar accusations.
During that time of Benedict’s Papacy, “evidence mounted of widespread sexual abuse by priests of children and vulnerable people, resulting in a crisis in the Catholic church …. ”
It seems that there is again some leverage against a Pope available, to contain him with regard to earthly political matters.
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