Ratzinger Choir: Inflated And Misleading "Abuse" Report.
Last week an inflated and often not convincing 425-page report about alleged abuses in the boarding school of the German Catholic boys choir Regensburger Domspatzen was published producing a huge media uproar. There is a political side to the matter as Benedict XVI's brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger conducted the choir for many years, and the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, is a former bishop of Regensburg. There have been attempts to use the report in order to smear their names.
The report claims that 547 pupils were victims of abuse. In reality 500 of them claimed to have experienced - quote - "physical violence", an accusation referring to minor incidents that could be made against every school in the world that was operating in the past 70 years. Over 90% of the witnesses of pupils sound like personal frustrations.
It is suspicious that the report blames the alleged …More