Former Pope Benedict’s sudden resignation is speculated by many to have stemmed from rampant child abuse. These accusations are supported by a number of witnesses and a shocking story that got no air time in the mainstream media — that the former Pope Benedict’s brother abused at least 231 children at a catholic boys choir.
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Pope Benedict XVI attends a concert by the Domspatzen choir with his brother Georg Ratzinger at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on October 22, 2005
The Domspatzen, a 1,000-year-old choir in Regensburg, Bavaria, was dragged into the massive sexual abuse scandal plaguing the Catholic Church in 2010, when allegations of assaults that took place several decades ago went public.
The choir was run by Pope Benedict's elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, from 1964 to 1994 when most of the claimed abuses took place.
Lawyer Ulrich Weber, who had been commissioned by the diocese to look into the cases, said at a press conference that his research, which included 70 interviews with victims, uncovered abuse that took place from 1945 to the early 1990s.
Their was 231 reports of physical abuse.
These ranged from sexual assault to rape, severe beatings and food deprivation.
"50 victims spoke of ten perpetrators".
The director and composer Franz Wittenbrink, a former pupil of the boarding school, had told Spiegel magazine in 2010 that there was an "system of sadistic punishments connected to sexual pleasure".
The German scandal is one of several to have rocked the Catholic Church in recent years, notably in Ireland where one priest admitted sexually abusing more than 100 children.
Several German institutions have also been engulfed by the scandal, including an elite Jesuit school in Berlin which had admitted to systematic sexual abuse of pupils by two priests in the 1970s and 1980s. theguardian.com
Most of the priests concerned did not face criminal charges, because the alleged crimes took place too long ago.
But there had been calls for a change in the law and for the church to pay compensation to victims.
In February 2015, the Regensburg diocese had said there were 72 victims of abuse, and had offered compensation of 2,500 euros each.
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Commoner ago
I, for one, liked Pope Benedict. He was very conservative. I don't know whether these rumors are true or not. Who knows what is true. I tend to think that many liberal Catholics, including the leadership at the Vatican, which is not the same as the Pope, did not like Benedict and threatened him with these rumors in order to remove him. In the same manner they are trying to smear Trump with "Russia, Russia, Russia". One thing that I find strange in all these accusations against priests, bishops, etc., is that they always come out when a conservative Pope, Bishop, Cardinal is in charge. It is their way to remove the ones they don't like by sacrificing some of their own. It goes on for years, but is only brought to light when a conservative is in charge. There was a book written about how liberals infiltrated the Catholic Church with gays and pedophiles in a planned effort to bring it down, creating their own "deep state of corruption".
The book was "Goodbye Good Men: How Liberals brought corruption into the Catholic Church".
TweedleDee3000 ago
His "conservatism" was phony, unfortunately. Look up the "alta vendita" to learn of the plans freemasons made to infiltrate the Church, all the way back in the early 1800s. They've obviously got their man as the pope now.