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Either that—damning enough in itself—or it perhaps would have been a routine matter, which is even worse. Certainly the pattern—of finding another parish with fresh children for the priest to assault—is the one that has become horribly "routine" ever since and became standard practice when Ratzinger became a cardinal and was placed in charge of the church's global response to clerical pederasty.
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So, I don't get it. I kind of understand why it might be hard to bring about charges on the Pope, but the article seems to suggest that even the abusers that worked outside the Vatican are immune to prosecution as past transgressions have been handled internally... Why? Do they have some sort of diplomatic immunity thing or is it something else?