The New York Times is reporting when the current Pope was a cardinal, he was kept more closely apprised of a sexual abuse case in Germany than previous Church statements have suggested. In 1980, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was copied on a memo that informed him that a priest would be returned to pastoral work within days of beginning psychiatric treatment to overcome pedophilia. The priest was later convicted of molesting boys in another parish. Meanwhile, in another sexual abuse case, the Vatican has strongly defended its decision not to defrock the Wisconsin-based priest Father Lawrence Murphy, who molested as many 200 deaf boys. Internal documents show Vatican officials, including the future Pope, knew of the allegations but were most concerned with protecting the Church’s image. On Thursday, Gigi Budzinski, said her father was one of the deaf boys who was molested by Father Murphy.

Gigi Budzinski: “He hopes they do something. I believe somebody should be punished for this. His innocence was stolen from him, his childhood. He was very depressed. He was not happy. He couldn’t enjoy his childhood. Everything was stolen from him. And now he’s sixty-one years old, and he’s still fighting for this.”