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US lawyer wants to question pope
AAP April 1, 2010, 10:36 am
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A US lawyer has filed a legal motion to have Pope Benedict XVI questioned over the child sex scandal that is rocking the Roman Catholic church.

Lawyer William McMurry filed a motion in a Kentucky court on Tuesday seeking to take sworn testimony from the pope on what the Vatican knew about the long-running scandal of predator priests.

The motion, a copy of which was sent to AFP, says Benedict was aware of clergy sex abuse in the United States and that he "discouraged prosecution of accused clergy and encouraged secrecy to protect the reputation of the Church" in the 24 years that he led the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.

"That organisation was responsible for screening these cases dealing with complaints by US bishops about their various abusive priests in various dioceses," McMurry told AFP on Wednesday.

The motion says documents released last week by the New York Times "unequivocally link Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, to child sexual abuse cases in the United States.
"These documents directly implicate Pope Benedict XVI's involvement in the Holy See's decision to cast a shroud of secrecy over clergy sexual abuse cases in the United States," it says.
The New York Times published several letters and other documents which indicated that, when he was head of the CDF, Benedict was informed of the case of a serial pedophile priest called Father Lawrence Murphy, who is accused of molesting up to 200 boys at a school for the deaf in Wisconsin.

Since the Times story broke, several other clergy sex abuse victims and their lawyers have come forward and claimed that, when he was head of the CDF, the pope was informed about the predator priests who molested them but did nothing to stop the abuse.
The conservative Benedict has continually spoken out and apologised for the "heinous crime" of child sex abuse by priests.

The Vatican says Benedict sees the clerical abuse crisis as a "test for him and the church".
The Vatican spokesman, Reverend Federico Lombardi, told The Associated Press on Wednesday the pontiff was holding up well physically but was enduring a Holy Week of "penitence and humility".

Benedict hasn't spoken out about the crisis since he released a letter to Irish bishops on March 20 excoriating them for gross errors of judgment in handling abuse cases.

The pope's comments came as one of his close confidantes acknowledged church guilt in the widespread sex abuse scandal.

Christoph Schoenborn, a prominent Austrian cardinal, said some in the church took advantage and destroyed the trust of children and were sexually violent.
He thanked victims for breaking their silence and added that much remains to be done to make things right.

Schoenborn spoke on Wednesday during a service in Vienna's St Stephen's Cathedral that was co-organised by a group promoting church reform.

It featured accounts of abuse, readings and musical performances.

Austria is among several countries that has been hit by an ongoing string of church abuse claims.