{"id":7806,"date":"2010-04-20T22:32:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/20\/pope-linked-cover-up-of-cathol\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:32:45","slug":"pope-linked-cover-up-of-cathol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/pope-linked-cover-up-of-cathol\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope-linked Cover-up of Catholic Church Sex Scandal Gets Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A FORMER vicar-general in the archdiocese of Munich has claimed that he was pressurised last month into taking the blame for a mistake made 30 years ago by the then Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict), concerning the case of a paedophile priest.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Gerhard Gruber has now said he did so only after coming under huge pressure from unnamed Catholic Church sources to take responsibility, so as to &#8220;take the pope out of the firing line&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/frontpage\/2010\/0419\/1224268630491.html\">Story here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to comment more, but I&#8217;ve been told to shut up in matters of the Pope.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWell, not really.  The truth is that I&#8217;ve not read much about this latest story and don&#8217;t have an opinion on it yet.  I do have an opinion on the Church&#8217;s cover up of widespread sexual child abuse:  Go fuck yourself, church.  Does anyone have a problem with that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FORMER vicar-general in the archdiocese of Munich has claimed that he was pressurised last month into taking the blame for a mistake made 30 years ago by the then Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict), concerning the case of a paedophile priest. Fr Gerhard Gruber has now said he did so only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/pope-linked-cover-up-of-cathol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope-linked Cover-up of Catholic Church Sex Scandal Gets Worse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[304,2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-21U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}