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Una lettera del 1985 firmata dal cardinale Joseph Ratzinger dimostra
la resistenza opposta dal futuro Papa alla rimozione di un sacerdote
californiano, Stephen Kiesle, che aveva molestato dei bambini. Nella
missiva l'allora prefetto della Congregazione per la dottrina della
fede esprimeva preoccupazione per l'effetto che una la riduzione allo
stato laicale del sacerdote avrebbe avuto sul "bene della chiesa
universale". A rivelarlo è l'Associated Press, entrata in possesso di
una fitta e lunghissima corrispondenza sul caso tra la diocesi di
Oakland e il Vaticano.  L'agenzia riferisce che la Santa sede ha
confermato la firma di Ratzinger sulla lettera, ma ha rifiutato di
commentarne il contenuto:  "L'ufficio stampa non ritiene necessario
rispondere a ogni singolo documento preso fuori contesto che riguarda
particolari situazioni legali - ha detto all'Ap padre Federico
Lombardi, portavoce vaticano - Non è strano che ci siano singoli
documenti con la firma di Ratzinger".

 fede esprimeva preoccupazione per l'effetto 
Esprimere preoccupazione è oppporsi al corso della giustizia?????
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 Esprimere preoccupazione è oppporsi al corso della giustizia?????
 dipende per per che cosa si esprime preoccupazione (articolo
associated press originale)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to
defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting
children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal
church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.
The correspondence, obtained by The Associated Press, is the strongest
challenge yet to the Vatican's insistence that Benedict played no role
in blocking the removal of pedophile priests during his years as head
of the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog office.
The letter, signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was typed in
Latin and is part of years of correspondence between the Diocese of
Oakland and the Vatican about the proposed defrocking of the Rev.
Stephen Kiesle.
The Vatican refused to comment on the contents of the letter Friday,
but a spokesman confirmed it bore Ratzinger's signature.
"The press office doesn't believe it is necessary to respond to every
single document taken out of context regarding particular legal
situations," the Rev. Federico Lombardi said. "It is not strange that
there are single documents which have Cardinal Ratzinger's signature."
The diocese recommended removing Kiesle (KEEZ'-lee) from the
priesthood in 1981, the year Ratzinger was appointed to head the
Vatican office that shared responsibility for disciplining abusive
priests.
The case then languished for four years at the Vatican before
Ratzinger finally wrote to Oakland Bishop John Cummins. It was two
more years before Kiesle was removed; during that time Kiesle
continued to do volunteer work with children through the church.
In the November 1985 letter, Ratzinger says the arguments for removing
Kiesle are of "grave significance" but added that such actions
required very careful review and more time. He also urged the bishop
to provide Kiesle with "as much paternal care as possible" while
awaiting the decision, according to a translation for AP by Professor
Thomas Habinek, chairman of the University of Southern California
Classics Department.
But the future pope also noted that any decision to defrock Kiesle
must take into account the "good of the universal church" and the
"detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke within the
community of Christ's faithful, particularly considering the young
age." Kiesle was 38 at the time.
Kiesle had been sentenced in 1978 to three years' probation after
pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges of lewd conduct for tying
up and molesting two young boys in a San Francisco Bay area church
rectory.
As his probation ended in 1981, Kiesle asked to leave the priesthood
and the diocese submitted papers to Rome to defrock him.
In his earliest letter to Ratzinger, Cummins warned that returning
Kiesle to ministry would cause more of a scandal than stripping him of
his priestly powers.
"It is my conviction that there would be no scandal if this petition
were granted and that as a matter of fact, given the nature of the
case, there might be greater scandal to the community if Father Kiesle
were allowed to return to the active ministry," Cummins wrote in 1982.
While papers obtained by the AP include only one letter with
Ratzinger's signature, correspondence and internal memos from the
diocese refer to a letter dated Nov. 17, 1981, from the then-cardinal
to the bishop. Ratzinger was appointed to head the Vatican's
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith a week later.
California church officials wrote to Ratzinger at least three times to
check on the status of Kiesle's case. At one point, a Vatican official
wrote to say the file may have been lost and suggested resubmitting
materials.
Diocese officials considered writing Ratzinger again after they
received his 1985 response to impress upon him that leaving Kiesle in
the ministry would harm the church, Rev. George Mockel wrote in a memo
to the Oakland bishop.
"My own reading of this letter is that basically they are going to sit
on it until Steve gets quite a bit older," the memo said. "Despite his
young age, the particular and unique circumstances of this case would
seem to make it a greater scandal if he were not laicized."
Irwin Zalkin, an attorney representing some of the victims, said he
was familiar with the correspondence but wouldn't provide documents to
AP.
"Cardinal Ratzinger was more concerned about the avoidance of scandal
than he was about protecting children," Zalkin said in a phone
interview. "That was a central theme."
As Kiesle's fate was being weighed in Rome, the priest returned to
suburban Pinole to volunteer as a youth minister at St. Joseph Church,
where he had served as associate pastor from 1972 to 1975.
Kiesle was ultimately stripped of his priestly powers in 1987, though
the documents do not indicate when, how or why. They also don't
indicate what role - if any - Ratzinger had in the decision.
Kiesle continued to volunteer with children, according to Maurine
Behrend, who worked in the Oakland diocese's youth ministry office in
the 1980s. After learning of his history, Behrend complained to church
officials. When nothing was done she wrote a letter, which she showed
to the AP.
"Obviously nothing has been done after EIGHT months of repeated
notifications," she wrote. "How are we supposed to have confidence in
the system when nothing is done? A simple phone call to the pastor
from the bishop is all it would take."
She eventually confronted Cummins at a confirmation and Kiesle was
gone a short time later, Behrend said.
Kiesle was arrested and charged in 2002 with 13 counts of child
molestation from the 1970s. All but two were thrown out after the U.S.
Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a California law
extending the statute of limitations.
He pleaded no contest in 2004 to a felony for molesting a young girl
in his Truckee home in 1995 and was sentenced to six years in state
prison.
Kiesle, now 63 and a registered sex offender, lives in a Walnut Creek
gated community, according to his address listed on the Megan's Law
sex registry. An AP reporter was turned away when attempting to reach
him for comment.
William Gagen, an attorney who represented Kiesle in 2002, did not
return a call for comment.
More than a half-dozen victims reached a settlement in 2005 with the
Oakland diocese alleging Kiesle had molested them as young children.
"He admitted molesting many children and bragged that he was the Pied
Piper and said he tried to molest every child that sat on his lap,"
said Lewis VanBlois, an attorney for six Kiesle victims who
interviewed the former priest in prison. "When asked how many children
he had molested over the years, he said 'tons.'"
Cummins, the now-retired bishop, told the AP during an interview at
his Oakland home that he "didn't really care for" Kiesle, but he
didn't recall writing to Ratzinger concerning the case.
"I wish I did write to Cardinal Ratzinger. I don't think I was that
smart," Cummins, now 82, told AP.
Documents obtained by the AP last week revealed similar instances of
Vatican stalling in cases involving two Arizona clergy.
In one case, the future pope took over the abuse case of the Rev.
Michael Teta of Tucson, Ariz., then let it languish at the Vatican for
years despite repeated pleas from the bishop for the man to be removed
from the priesthood.
In the second, the bishop called Msgr. Robert Trupia a "major risk
factor" in a letter to Ratzinger. There is no indication in those
files that Ratzinger responded.
The Vatican has called the accusations "absolutely groundless" and
said the facts were being misrepresented.

 defrock a California priest ....
 
 
In effetti non vi ï¿œ nessun tipo di ostruzione al corso della giustizia.
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ne compiaccio :)
The case then languished for four years at the Vatican before
Ratzinger finally wrote to Oakland Bishop John Cummins. It was two
more years before Kiesle was removed; during that time Kiesle
continued to do volunteer work with children through the church.
questo invece è oggettivo