«I think Joseph Ratzinger had to know it. I think at this time the Church tried to sweep it under the carpet. They didn’t want anyone to speak badly about the Church».
Composer Franz Wittenbrink was a member of the Regensburg choir between 1958 and 1967. We met up in Munich and Franz told me about the abuse he suffered.
I asked Franz whether it was possible that, as archbishop of Munich in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Joseph Ratzinger was unaware of the scale of abuse in the church.
He told me how trainee priests – prefects at the boarding school – had a system of «semi-sexual punishment».
«We had to take our trousers down and we were beaten with a stick. There were three prefects who used their hands to slap naked bottoms. We had to go to their private apartments for 20 beatings».
Other choirboys were sexually abused by the director of the boarding school.
«He picked boys out and they had to go to his apartment. He gave them red wine and talked about life. And then the boys had to masturbate him».
«No one from my class told their parents what was happening» says Franz. «I would never tell my parents. I thought they would say that if we were beaten then we deserved it.».
I asked Franz whether it was possible that, as archbishop of Munich in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Joseph Ratzinger was unaware of the scale of abuse in the church.
Source: BBC.
My comment:
The Papal state in Rome is a statehood above law and justice.
Which police department has the authority to arrest the Pope, and to do a razzia in the Vatican archives to find the amount of sexual abuse cases the present pontiff has hidden from justice and court trials?
The truth is that the Vatican is ran by a priesthood that is not a single day better than any mafia.
People who defend and support this kind of religious system will be judged by the Messiah. The eternal fire of Hell is their destiny.
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First published: March 20th, 2010.
Written by Ivar
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