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2010-03-26 17:06:02
Fr. Lombardi issues statement on New York Times article
Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., questioned by journalists
concerning a new New York Times article, which appeared on 26 March and concerns the period
in which Cardinal Ratzinger was archbishop of Munich, referred them to this morning's public
denial in a communique published by the archdiocese of Munich, which reads:
"The article in the New York Times contains no new information beyond that which the
archdiocese has already communicated concerning the then archbishop's knowledge of the
situation of Father H."
Thus the archdiocese confirms the position, according to which the then archbishop had no
knowledge of the decision to reassign Father H. to pastoral activities in a parish.
It rejects any other version of events as mere speculation.
The then vicar general, Msgr. Gerhard Gruber, has assumed full responsibility for his own
erroneous decision to reassign Father H. to pastoral activity
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