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Sat 03 Mar 2010Abuser priest accepted into pope's former diocese
POPE BENEDICT has been linked for the first time to Germany’s growing clerical abuse scandal in a case dating back to his time as archbishop of Munich.
In 1980 the then Archbishop Ratzinger accepted into his diocese a priest convicted of sexual abuse of a minor in the western city of Essen.
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