For 24 years, Fr Lawrence Murphy had molested dozens of deaf children attending a school in Milwaukee. When his Archbishop twice wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger, reported the NYT, nothing happened initially. Eventually Ratzinger’s deputy, Cardinal Bertone ordered a canonical trial, later halting it after receiving a personal request from Father Murphy. Four months later he died.
On Saturday, in this interesting “response” in the National Review in Canada, Fr Raymond J de Souza pointed out that the letters published by the NYT were signed by Bertone, never Ratzinger, who likewise was not present at the meeting held to discuss the case in Rome.
The Murphy Case was referred to the Holy See because it involved soliciting sex within the confessional, a horrendous phenomenon which was under Church law, dealt with by the Vatican.
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