More trouble for Benedict:

Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.

The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was protecting the church from scandal.

The documents emerge as Pope Benedict is facing other accusations that he and direct subordinates often did not alert civilian authorities or discipline priests involved in sexual abuse when he served as an archbishop in Germany and as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer.

If this didn’t involve the Catholic church and the Pope was just some supervisor of a person engaging in these activities on company time, then he would be charged and facing serious time. The same should happen to this asshole. Since the church refuses to take action against him, we need to hope that the nations start doing it.

Adding…For any gamers out there. This weekend I finish the new game Dante’s Inferno. In the game you battle through different parts of Hell, and in one of the final levels you enter a room where all the sinning Popes are dammed to. I kept thinking that Benedict will one day be in that room.