Although everyone knows and respects you as the knowledgeable Benedict XVI, however to Sharky&Sharky, you are Benny D, a good old boy, a little stodgy but still our 'bro Benny'.
Sharky&Sharky's morals may not be of the highest, correction are not the highest well let it be said that Sharky&Sharky are the friends in low places that people sing and speak of. But our wisdom is pretty good. Benny D in your current (yes your) situation, you must reflect on those paraphrased words of St. Redneck, "A man has got to ask himself, what would Jesus do?" To assist in determining that answer let us review the priest child sexual abuse problem. Let's lay bare the nonfeasance, misfeasance, and malfeasance performed by Church officials.
Starting in America, there is the case of the late Father Murphy in Milwaukee, who is alleged to have molested 200 deaf boys from 1950 to 1974. There also appears to be a police whitewash of his crime. Later while you were the head man (Prefect) of the CDF (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) it is said the CDF advised Bishop Weakland of Milwaukee to not hold a canonical trial 20 years later due to the impending death of Fr. Murphy. Fox paints a bleaker picture of Bishop Weakland's attempt to get the CDF to hold the canonical trial. However if you note the last line of the FOX article, it maybe come apparent why Weakland may not have pushed the cause for a canonical trial to hard.
Weakland admits he is gay
The BBC produced the documentary Sex Crimes and the Vatican. Readers can view the entire film at the hyperlink. From Wikipedia: Canon lawyer Thomas Patrick Doyle , who was included in the documentary as supporting the picture that it presented, later wrote with regard to the 1962 Crimen sollicitations and the 2001 De delictis gravioribus, and the Church's formal investigation into charges of abuse: "There is no basis to assume that the Holy See envisioned this process to be a substitute for any secular legal process, criminal or civil. It is also incorrect to assume, as some have unfortunately done, that these two Vatican documents are proof of a conspiracy to hide sexually abusive priests or to prevent the disclosure of sexual crimes committed by clerics to secular authorities."[22] However, two years later in 2008 Doyle said of attempts to reform the Catholic Church that it was like "trudging through what can best be described as a swamp of toxic waste".[23] The Church was reluctant to hand over to the civil authorities' information about the Church's own investigations into charges. In the BBC documentary, Rick Romley, a district attorney who initiated an investigation of the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, stated that "the secrecy, the obstruction I saw during my investigation was unparalleled in my entire career as a DA...it was so difficult to obtain any information from the Church at all." He reported archives of documents and incriminating evidence pertaining to sex abuse that were kept from the authorities, which under the law could not be subpoenaed. "The Church fails to acknowledge such a serious problem but more than that, it is not a passiveness but an openly obstructive way of not allowing authorities to try to stop the abuse within the Church. They fought us every step of the way."
Without naming names and just identifying locations: Boston, New Hampshire, Arizona, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Canada, Ireland, and your own Munich. This is only a partial list of child abuse by priest. Nonfeasance, the non performance of a duty by a bishop to drop a dime on the criminal priest and defend the children, the ignoring of this duty is manifest and exacerbated in allowing the police to shove the victimization under the rug. The priests were not tried by canon law, by state law or defrocked. In many cases nothing was done to the criminal priest. Next, misfeasance was done. The criminal priests were transferred by church authorities to another location where he was positioned to do more harm. This was an organizational crime, the transferring thereby using the power of an office to hide a crime or criminal, a cover up. Finally malfeasance occurred that is the hiding of the evidence and sometimes the criminal priest.
These sexual assaults are all around you. What about the Philippines? Are you not suspicious of South America or the rest of Europe? Leaders often find themselves in situations that are deplorable and not of their choosing. Sharky&Sharky aver that your apologies are not enough to change organizational or clergical behavior as well as enact papal authority and behavior for the future ages:
Sharky&Sharky urge you to consider the South African approach of truth and reconciliation with the outcomes of amnesty or rejection for the tried priest. Truth is the goal and that will cleanse the Church and its believers. In the truth and reconciliation you would be calling all the harmed faithful to come forth to tell their story and face their victimizers. Both the accused and the victim should express their situations and feeling. However all testimonies should be made available to the authorities such that crimes maybe prosecuted. Organizational and ecclesiastical nonfeasance, misfeasance and malfeasance should be exposed, tried and corrected. Guilty priests are obligated to come forward and accept their life of penance.
This my dear Benny D is what Sharky&Sharky believe Jesus would do.
Sharky&Sharky©
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