Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags

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Pope Benedict is not resting in peace as his estate is being sued by victims of Church sexual abuse seeking truth and justice set against a damning report commissioned by the Church itself that found Ratzinger failed to act on clergy abusers while Archbishop of Munich.

A victim of abuse demands a total of 350,000 euros from the Archdiocese and the heirs of the deceased Pope Benedict XVI This was confirmed by the man’s lawyer, Andreas Schulz, of the German Press Agency.

Previously, “Correctiv”, Bavarian radio and “Die Zeit” reported on the claim and quoted from a corresponding brief. The plaintiff is demanding 300,000 euros from the archbishopric and 50,000 euros in compensation from the heirs of the pope emeritus who died on New Year’s Eve. According to a spokeswoman, the court put the value in dispute in the process at 362,000 euros a little higher.

The man states that almost 30 years ago in the parsonage in Garching an der Alz in Upper Bavaria, about the convicted repeat offender priest H. to have been abused. “The plaintiff was thus deprived of his happiness in life, thrown off the course of life and therefore sought refuge in drugs and alcohol with all its consequences for his professional life,” says Schulz’s letter, according to “Correctiv”, BR and “Zeit”.

Benedict XVI, then still a cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1986, helped ensure that the convicted priest was reinstated in a congregation. This made it possible for Priest H. to abuse the current plaintiff at the time, according to the argument.

Not an isolated case

The Traunstein trial is not the only current case that could cost the church dearly: a former altar boy filed a lawsuit for pain and suffering before the Cologne district court, which was about a much higher sum, namely around 750,000 euros – and thus much more than what the church has been paying abuse victims to date.

For comparison: A commission set up by the Catholic Church in Germany has so far approved more than 40 million euros in so-called voluntary recognition benefits for victims of sexual abuse. According to the Independent Commission for Recognition Services (UKA), it was almost 13 million euros in 2021 and around 28 million in 2022.

In 143 cases, sums of more than 50,000 euros were awarded. In 24 cases it was even more than 100,000 euros.

https://newsingermany.com/abuse-traunste...euros/?amp

Just a quick thought, without reading the whole article, WTheF does a priest have an estate?  What happened to that vow of poverty thing?

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