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Archbishop Charles Scicluna says Pope Francis continues to build on the progress made under Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s papacy in the Church’s response to clerical abuse cases through many documents.
“In February 2002, Cardinal Ratzinger requested and obtained from Pope John Paul II other special faculties aimed at expediting procedures in cases. At this time, it bears reminding, hundreds of historical cases were presented en masse to the CDF, especially from the US." Towards the end of 2004, “Cardinal Ratzinger ordered a review of all cases that had remained pending at the CDF, including some very high profile cases.”When Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, Archbishop Scicluna continues, “he ensured that the CDF’s work not only continued but was also supported.
In numerous well-documented instances, Ratzinger delivered homilies, speeches, discourses and exhortations and wrote letters and messages describing the sexual abuse of minors committed “within the family of the Church” as “egregious crimes”, repeatedly affirming that “efforts to protect children must continue.”
He dismissed clerics and accepted resignations and repeatedly demanded that those responsible for abuse be brought to justice and that effective safeguarding measures be implemented.
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