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POPE's BROTHER DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF SEXUAL ABUSE AT HIS CATHOLIC CHOIR SCHOOL

9 March 2010

The pope's elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, said Tuesday that alleged sexual abuse at the German choir school in the 1950s and 1960s he worked at for 29 years was "never discussed".

Ratzinger, 86, who ran the Domspatzen choir attached to the boarding school from 1964 to 1993, said: "Things like this were never discussed... At the beginning of my time there were a lot of problems with the reorganization of the choir, which were the main focus of interest.

"No, the problem of sexual abuse that has now come to light was never discussed," he told the Passauer Neue Presse daily in an interview. FULL STORY


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