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The Murphy case was reinforced Jeff Anderson
He allowed that this problem had existed before,
From the outside, Ratzinger is often perceived as a stiff personality,
you could have, also, thousands of sex abuse cases,
Why didn't any of them just stand up publicly and come out and say,
He keeps gathering information on Murphy
Not even a Pope is all-powerful because he lives in a structure -
Cardinal Ratzinger's investigation confirmed his suspicion of Maciel's crimes
And Father Murphy molested me again
He went away in a short retreat
in return for being given the attribute of statehood.
Following a Vatican to live a life of prayer and penitence
And the children loved Jesus too.
to the office of the Papal Nuncio,
This calculated, withering position
He didn't say anything, but I could see his facial expression change.
According to Canon Law,
Patrick Wall was given a special assignment -
in his role as the Vatican's pubic enemy number one.
that is growing most rapidly in the developing world.
hoping that sex offenders and alcoholics
But the Pope poses a problem.
He certainly didn't come off as an evil, angry person, and so on...
He came to the conclusion that priests who sexually abuse children are like vipers -
that Murphy couldn't go to his church hearing,
of children in that situation.
every single priest sex abuse case went to Ratzinger.
Even though he's admitted to 100 cases of abuse,
would find salvation on their knees, praying for mercy.
I just feel myself shaking
And then, I said something in 1963.
"that I think the Archbishop needs to hear."
It was hard for me to communicate with my father
In 2010, Pope Benedict sought to bring the flock back to the church
I kept it a secret.
and he touched it to her vagina and he said,
Many would disagree.
but still he did not act.
In reference to a priest
swore an oath of secrecy.
and only in the moment when all the Vatican is stopped,
and then, Father Walsh told Meyer in 1957.
Father Murphy dies.
attempted to serve legal papers from Terry's lawsuit, to the Vatican.
And then Murphy came out. And they met.
And so, when I was ten, Father Murphy baptized me.
They met in our dorm, about six of the boys.
The therapist's handwritten notes on her interviews with Murphy
and granted the men a meeting with then Assistant DA Bill Gardner.
Bob gave me the camera and I videotaped it.
He was part of the Singing Priests group.
Geoffrey Robertson is a human rights lawyer,
They don't want only that the priests are defrocked.
that have been complicit in those crimes, worldwide.
I liked being in the dorm.
and Father Murphy had come back.
"you don't refer to the civil authorities
But the people sending me in obviously had ulterior motives.
And I was just sick, I was just sick.
When asked what steps he had taken
In fact, how the Vatican oversaw it.
In 1963, Father Murphy went away for a few weeks.
The people, they are the church.
I could see that Jesus loved children.
178 countries now acknowledge the Vatican as a state.
of the nearby large city, after admitting
you know, don't give money to this man because he abuses these kids.
lie voluminous records of worldwide sexual abuse in the priesthood,
and he personally went to see Cardinal Ratzinger
the brief investigation ended.
We were 95% practicing Catholics.
saying he's confident 'the Church will clean up its business and do the right thing.'
and I felt like my sins had been wiped away.
they also revealed his complex justifications for his crimes.
When deposed years later Archbishop Cousins recalled the meeting
The attitude from the Vatican was, "We don't turn our priests in.
If we could get that out of our minds...
and they would put this flyer,
I didn't know that.
Father Murphy asked who was going to sleep with him.
It's a tiny little religious enclave in Rome.
Later on, I got into trouble at school.
I spoke to a priest only yesterday, he says,
was one of the world's most charismatic fundraisers for the Catholic Church.
There is such a stigma to this problem,
and the bishops, archbishops and cardinals
the Roman Curia which is almost 2,000 years old -
And he nudged me again, so I acknowledged him.
Murphy passed away and he was buried in his priestly vestments,
Why didn't you go yourself, Bishop?
And the response from the Vatican is to have compassion for the priest,
Yet, when he was a cardinal,
They appoint three judges, Canon lawyers, to listen to evidence,
To us bishops he says,
because he had good English skills.
with sympathetic drinkers who were more free with their money.
The bishop is tearing his hair out.