Pope Benedict accused of ignoring abuse allegations against Hullerman

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Times Online (UK)



John Follain and Bojan Pancevski

NOT long after a portly, jovial priest in the German industrial city of Essen was accused of sexually abusing three boys in 1979, he was offered a new home in Munich by Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI.

Ratzinger, who was Archbishop of Munich and Freising at the time, wanted Father Peter Hullermann — known to friends in the church as “Hulli” — to undergo psychotherapy.

A psychiatrist quickly concluded that Hullermann was untreatable, however.

“I told the church officials that Hullermann must never be allowed to work with children again,” said Werner Huth, the psychiatrist, in an interview with The Sunday Times this weekend.


Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7069826.ece

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Pope Benedict XVI delivers the "Urbi et Orbi" message from the center Loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

[mrs_p]

1. no surprise. protect the church before children every time. nt

[maseman]

2. Protecting kid rapists

An old friend kind of gave me the cold shoulder the other day...he asked "Are you still a Catholic?" I simply said "no."

Then he gave me some shit. I hope he asks me again. The next time I'll remind him that his most holy father is a protector of child rapists.

[Christa]

12. Kudos to you!! nt

[laconicsax]

3. Technically, you're not ignoring something if you take the trouble to sweep it under the carpet. n/t

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[CoffeeCat]

16. That's exactly right...

...when you proactively participate in the cover up of child sex abusers--you are just as bad
as the child sex abusers.

The only organization that would engage in this type of concerted, deliberate enabling of pedophilia is NAMBLA.

[ShockediSay]

4. Not the only time a psychiatrist determined that some pediophile priest

could not be any way near 'cured' and so advised the archdiocese in question.

Talk amongst yourselves.

[ezmerelda39]

5. Does the Catholic Church

attract pedophiles or create them?

[Joe Bacon]

15. I got a feeling that question is answered.

Looks like there's another case out here in Los Angeles where yet another priest has done the dingle dangle dingle with young boys and ol Cardinal Phony Mahoney did the Ped-0-phile shuffle again.

Why isn't Mahoney in jail?

[davidthegnome]

6. Not really surprising

This Pope has a shady past, a questionable character.... and really hasn't been all that useful in the way of leadership, progress, or, well, anything really. I doubt these are grounds to get rid of him, but I rather wish they would. It's long past time for a third Vatican council - and if the church wants former Catholics like me to ever consider coming back, it needs to clean up its act - starting at the top.

[maseman]

9. You'd actully go back to being a Catholic?

I'd become a Jehovah's Witness before that.

[greengestalt]

7. Exorcism

Q. Why, despite movies and media over-reporting have overall Exorcisms gone down in recent decades?

A. 'Cause da Devils don't want to be in a child's body, tied to a bed in a room alone with a Priest!!!

[SpiralHawk]

8. Hidi et Truthi

is what ya got from the pervo Pig Latinster Vatican Cabal (R)

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[panzerfaust]

13. Untrue. He did not "Ignore"

He covered it up.

[No Elephants]

14. Who was Pope last year?

"Huth’s warning was ignored. The priest was allowed to return to pastoral work and then to teach religion in a local state school.

Soon, he was in trouble again. He drank, showed pornographic videos to boys and abused them. He was convicted of the sexual abuse of minors and fined.

Even that was not the end of his time in the church. After a period of probation he continued working — with altar boys, among others.

He was still working as a priest right up until last Monday when, at the age of 62, he was suspended from his duties at a Bavarian tourist resort for breaching a church order in 2008 to avoid any involvement with children.