Cardinal Raztinger authored De delictis gravioribus in 2001.
Which was simply a slight revision of Crimen Sollicitationis. If anything, it was even more stultifying than the original.
It says nothing about victim secrecy.
Of course it does. It's very reason for being was secrecy.
The secrecy was required of the members of the tribunal, not the victims.
That's the logic of Rome -- deflection by omission. Secrecy was required of the victims and of anyone making the claim. That means the victim had to ONLY approach the church with his accusations, not the police, school authorities, or even his family. The same secrecy was imposed on the victim's family under threat of excommunication.
That's like accusing President Bush of war crimes for civilian casualties in Baghdad - pure political theater, for those who like that kind of thing.
Theater? It's that kind of willful ignorance of the facts that permits this tragedy to continue unabated. The pope was rightly accused of a cover-up because he was hiding decades of sexual abuse by pederast priests all over the globe.
He was not exonerated. He plead diplomatic immunity and the case could not go forward.
malicious agitprop
Protect your children. God punishes those who would destroy them.
Your information was incorrect, plain and simple. The deflection is yours.