Serious Men, or
Alarm Bells for the Goys
(A Sequel to Household Name)
(Also on 11 Sept 2006– Sontag's Sermon)
German Catholic sex abuse scandals draw link to Pope
Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:03pm IST
By Tom Heneghan, Reuters Religion Editor
PARIS (Reuters)–
"… The alarm bells are tolling all the more urgently in Rome, where tenuous links run from Bavarian boarding schools all the way to the German-born Pope Benedict. Critics are asking what he knew and did then and what he will do now.
His brother, Rev. Georg Ratzinger, has admitted to slapping boys in his Regensburg choir repeatedly."
For some background on the brother's admission, see today's Belfast Telegraph.
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