Misleading stories seeking to link Pope Benedict XVI to the sex-abuse scandal continue to appear regularly in major media outlets, and filter down uncontested through secondary reports. For example:
AP reports that Father Gerald Fitzgerald, a pioneer in the treatment of troubled priests, warned the Vatican in 1963 that pedophile priests must be permanently removed from ministry. The AP report suggests that the priest's letter to Pope Paul VI constitutes a new development in the sex-abuse story …
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