LOS ANGELES — When he was the church’s chief enforcer of doctrine 25 years ago, Pope Benedict XVI declined to defrock immediately a California priest who pleaded no contest to child sexual abuse, ...
LOS ANGELES — The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including “the good of the universal church,” ...
The Vatican has all the evidence to defrock Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron, according to Catholics who continued their weekly picket on Sunday, nearly a year since Pope Francis suspended Apuron on June ...
Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that ...
BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — A prominent Belgian bishop on Wednesday criticized the Vatican for failing to defrock a former bishop who admitted sexually abusing children, saying it had led to massive ...
In a recently discovered 1985 letter, the future Pope Benedict declined to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually abusing children. The letter, signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, ...