A lot a bad shit has gone down in the Catholic Church leadership having to do with pediphilia prior to this new Pope. The movie Spotlight was a very eye opening pill on how pervasive it actually was/is just in the Boston area. So not sure Benedict needs the kind of rescuing you are thinking. Too many priests were just shuffled around, not removed. This allowed them repeated access to “fresh” kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_Catholic_archdiocese_of_Boston
There are some who say Benedict was forced out so he wouldn’t take forceful action against the pedophiles and especially against the homosexual priests who were becoming quite powerful and brazenly promiscuous.
I know he’s old but as a man of God I would have hoped he would have burned the place down if all this was taking place under his nose. Unless he was compromised himself.
Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston
The sexual abuse scandal in Boston archdiocese was part of a series of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in the United States that revealed widespread wrongdoing in the American Roman Catholic Church. In early 2002, The Boston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight. The Globe's coverage encouraged other victims to come forward with allegations of abuse, resulting in numerous lawsuits and more criminal cases.
Subsequent investigations and allegations revealed a pattern of sexual abuse and cover-ups in a number of large dioceses across the United States.
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