In Vatican have rejected charges that the future Pope Benedict knew XVI 15 years ago about pedophilia of the American priest, but has not given a course to investigation of its crimes



Vatican. In Vatican have rejected charges that the future Pope Benedict knew XVI 15 years ago about pedophilia of the American priest, but has not given a course to investigation of its crimes, informs BBC.

Official body of the Sacred Throne «Osservatore Romano» named statements of some the American mass-media which have published this information, "shameful attempt at any cost to blacken the Pope Benedict and its nearest assistants" and asserts that "no concealment existed".

In the afternoon before «New York Times» has printed interview to 61-year-old Arthur Budzinskim which asserted that there was in the childhood a victim of dissolute actions from outside priest Lawrence Murphy teaching in a Catholic boarding school Saint John for boys with weakened hearing in the city of Sent-Frensis, the State of Wisconsin.

"All information on such affairs went upward to it [to the present Daddy], - has declared Budzinsky. - It was responsible for it".

Murphy who have died in 1998 suspect that it with 1950 on 1974 has made dissolute actions approximately with two hundred children hard of hearing - in bedrooms of pupils, during tourist trips, and even on a confession.

Five former pupils have brought an action recently against the Viskonsinsky diocese for inactivity as Murphys have only translated without publicity on other church post in state of Milwaukee.

Police investigation has not led in due time to promotion of official charges.

In 1996 the bishop of Milwaukee has informed on business in office of Vatican which is engaged, besides other, questions of behaviour and morals of clergy. The office was headed at that time by cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who has become subsequently by Pope Benedict XVI.

According to the church documents which have appeared at the disposal of «New York Times», it as if at first authorised internal investigation, but then has cancelled it, having received Lawrence Murphy's personal letter in which that wrote that it is old, sick and asks to allow to live to it of eyelids in rest.

Vatican was limited to instructions of the Miluoksky diocese not to suppose Murphy to church service.

The Press Secretary of the Pope priest-Jesuit Federiko Lombardi has reminded that "Murphy's business" has arisen after twenty with superfluous years after prospective infringements and two years prior to death of the elderly priest, and that the secular authorities could not prove its fault.

Meanwhile last months the Catholic Church is pursued by the scandals connected with charges of priests in pedophilia.

One of these days 14 Italians studying in 1950-1980th years at Catholic school "Antonio Provolo's Institute" in Verona have declared to TV reporters that were exposed in the childhood to the unworthy reference. As they said, they have addressed for the first time to the church authorities in 2008, but reactions has not followed.

Has received public publicity and other old business, a concerning Munich diocese which was headed at that time by present Benedict XVI. When in 1980 of priest Petera Hjullermana have suspected of sexual harassments to boys, the bishop was limited to its transfer from a province to Munich where it could receive the regular help of the psychiatrist. In 1986 Hjullermana all the same have condemned for pedophilia, but священнического of its dignity and have not deprived.

Last week Benedict XVI has made unprecedented apologies to victims of sexual violence from outside representatives of Catholic clergy in Ireland.

According to secular critics of Catholic Church, the vow of chastity on which preservation insists Vatican, inevitably generates sexual distortions among clergy.

Vatican and the Catholic episcopate also accuse of propensity to understand with infringers means, more often being limited to their direction in other arrivals, instead of deprivation священнического a dignity and transfer to justice.

However, one of the nearest assistants to the Daddy, cardinal José Sarajva Martins, has expressed opinion that of charge раздуты, and we deal "with plot against Church", without having specified, however, from whom it proceeds.

One of the higher hierarches of Anglican church, archbishop Westminster Vincent Nikols, also has stood up for the Daddy. Cardinal Ratzinger was not the indifferent observer in "Murphy's business", and becoming the Daddy, does to exclude similar in the future much, the archbishop in the newspaper «Times» has written.