Pope Benedict XVI has pushed back against accusations that he knew in 1980 that a priest under his control was an abuser, while denying he had intentionally concealed his presence at a meeting about the priest that year.
Benedict, now 94, became the first Pope in centuries to resign when he stepped down in 2013. His eight-year tenure was overshadowed by a global sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Most recently, Benedict has been under fire over his time as Archbishop of Munich and Freising, between 1977 and 1982, after a Church-commissioned report into abuse by Catholic clergy there was published last month.
During the meeting the reason for the therapy was not mentioned," the experts said.Pope Benedict XVI admits being at meeting about abuser priest when he ran Munich archdioceseThe investigators' findings -- which have now directly implicated him in a failure to prevent and punish abuse -- are threatening to wreck the reputation of the former pontiff.
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