Benedict served his final day as pope on February 28, Traveling by helicopter, he departed the Vatican for the summer papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Benedict stayed there while renovations were made to a convent, Mater Ecclesiae, in the southwest corner of Vatican City, which became his residence. One of Benedict's final acts as a pope was a tweet to his Twitter following.
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the center of your lives. Though Benedict has no further administrative or official duties and rarely appears in public, he did join Pope Francis on December 8, , as he pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter's Basilica to launch his Holy Year of Mercy. Benedict walked through the doorway right after Francis, gingerly negotiating the two steps with the help of a cane and his longtime assistant.
Pope Francis seemed taken aback by Benedict's frailty when he saw him at the Holy Door, and he asked the throngs of pilgrims in the piazza to send their prayers for his "good health. In a public letter written in February , Benedict stated that he was nearing the end of his life.
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The developments in Germany raised the question of what the two Ratzinger brothers knew about the abuse in the Regensburg choir. Most of the sexual abuse took place, apparently, at a boarding school for elementary-grade students connected to the choir. At that time, Georg Ratzinger, who was on the three-person supervisory board of the elementary school, acknowledged that some choirboys had complained about the punishments they received at the school.
In fact, accusations of abuse surfaced and were investigated in , but no one saw fit to remove Meier from his post until the year of his death. When asked at his press conference last week whether Georg Ratzinger had been aware of the abuse, Weber replied, "Based on my research, I must assume so. Georg Ratzinger has said that he routinely slapped choirboys when their performance was not up to snuff, standard treatment until Germany banned corporal punishment, in the early eighties.
So far, the Regensburg diocese has offered compensation of twenty-five hundred euros for each victim. In the early nineties, a monk who worked at the Vatican told me, "You wouldn't believe the amounts of money the church is spending to settle these priestly sexual-abuse cases. By , Catholic dioceses in the U. These financial settlements were reached largely to keep the victims quiet: in almost all cases, the documents were sealed and the victims signed a non-disclosure agreement.
Given the enormous amounts of money involved, the men running the Vatican were well aware of the problem. As Berry reported, Ray Mouton, a lawyer whom the Church hired in to defend a pedophile priest in Louisiana, warned that, if the Church did not adopt a policy for helping victims and removing pedophiles from the ministry, it could face a billion dollars in losses from financial settlements and damage awards in the next decade. It turned out that Mouton had actually underestimated the financial cost of the crisis.
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