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Source: Yahoo News
Posted: 20-4-2005
_Ratzinger's office also was responsible for reviewing cases of priests accused of child molesting. Clohessy's group has complained that the new pope apparently scuttled a request to investigate the Rev. Marciel Macial, founder of the Legionaries of Christ — though it was encouraged that the Vatican recently reopened the investigation.
Ratzinger was seen in some circles as minimizing the abuse crisis when he told Catholic News Service in 2002 that "less than 1 percent of priests are guilty of acts of this type." A 2004 survey commissioned by the U.S. bishops showed that about 4 percent of the priests who served over a half-century were accused of abuse, though it did not pin down the percentage of guilty priests.
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