And I will repeat, I do not believe that for one second. Ratzinger was tasked with covering up the crimes, keeping a lid on them, preventing further light to be shed on the dark sins of Rome's priestcraft.
The only "confusion" is evidenced by those who seem to deny the facts and instead depend of a few lines written, no doubt, by some PR flak.
In his letter to the bishops when he was head of the office of the Inquisition, Ratzinger affirmed church policy that absolute secrecy must be maintained until the child-victim turns 28! No police reports. No family members. No school counselors. No doctors. Just a carefully guarded secret of the sexual assault of a child, a secret between a church official and that child, who is under thread of excommunication if he tells anyone other than that church official, "another Christ."
And guess what? Pope Ratzinger just reiterated that restriction.
Do RC apologists even know what real scrutiny looks like? Are they without light totally?
I agree that the organizational tyrannical exclusivist lording it over stuff is dreadfully awful.
What else would we expect from the Vatican.
They and their !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! and their trumped up Marian blasphemies and idolatries are outrageous presumptions to begin with. What else is new.
Such INSTITUTIONS ALWAYS protect themselves first, last and always.
Nevertheless, God’s reach is unhindered by ermine, encyclicals, magicstericals, !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! Marian blasphemies, dogmatic hogwash, STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY, etc. etc. etc.
HE WILL LOWER THE BOOM ON WHOMEVER INDIVIDUALLY &/OR COLLECTIVELY WHEN HE GETS READY TO.