In the wake of the startling revelation that well over 200 boys were
abused over a 40-year period in a Bavarian choir conducted for 30 of
those years by the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the brother of former Pope
Benedict, many questions remain unanswered about exactly what the
Ratzinger brothers knew and when.
The lawyer who disclosed the abuse after an investigation commissioned by the Diocese of Regensburg said he assumes that Georg Ratzinger was aware of what one survivor called “a system of sadistic punishments connected to sexual pleasure” meted out by Johann Meier, the head of the school that housed the choir. Less clear is what Joseph Ratzinger knew, either during his time as the Archbishop of Munich or after 1981, when he became Pope John Paul II’s right hand man as the head of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
http://religiondispatches.org/what-did-pope-benedict-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/
The lawyer who disclosed the abuse after an investigation commissioned by the Diocese of Regensburg said he assumes that Georg Ratzinger was aware of what one survivor called “a system of sadistic punishments connected to sexual pleasure” meted out by Johann Meier, the head of the school that housed the choir. Less clear is what Joseph Ratzinger knew, either during his time as the Archbishop of Munich or after 1981, when he became Pope John Paul II’s right hand man as the head of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
http://religiondispatches.org/what-did-pope-benedict-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/