The church has said that Cardinal Ratzinger (as he then was) did not know that the priest returned to work.

天主教会表示，红衣主教拉青格（现在的教皇）对那个主教恢复神职的事情并不知情。

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"The cardinal had been less outspoken before, but this would be the spark for him in a new public role, " says Father Juan Molina, a Salvadorian-American priest in Washington who knows the cardinal.

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