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  • Oakland Priest’s Accuser Describes Sexual Abuse

    04/11/2010 8:43:10 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 18 replies · 942+ views
    times ^ | April 11, 2010 | JESSE McKINLEY and KATIE ZEZIMA
    A San Francisco woman who says she was molested by the Oakland priest at the center of a case that has raised questions about Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of sexually abusive clergy members described in vivid terms on Sunday how she was sexually abused and intimidated by her attacker. The woman, Melinda Costello, said she had been abused for several years, beginning at age 7, as a parishioner in nearby Fremont, Calif., where the Rev. Stephen Kiesle was working at a church as a seminarian in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • AP EXCLUSIVE: Future pope stalled pedophile case (California priest was eventually defrocked)

    04/09/2010 11:02:30 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 126 replies · 2,054+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/9/10 | Gillian Flaccus - ap
    LOS ANGELES – The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature. The correspondence, obtained by The Associated Press, is the strongest challenge yet to the Vatican's insistence that Benedict played no role in blocking the removal of pedophile priests during his years as head of the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog office. The letter, signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was typed in Latin and is part of years of correspondence between the Diocese...