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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Still,questions remain from his time as head of the Vatican's main office of doctrine and why Cardinal Ratzinger chose not to discipline or defrock the American priest, the Reverend Lawrence Murphy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"You have to talk to them." They especially want answers about then Cardinal Ratzinger and his involvement in the transfer of a priest who abused some 200 deaf American children 30 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The complainant, who is now married, says he resigned as a priest when Cardinal O'Brien was first made a bishop.

BBC: Cardinal Keith O'Brien

In the allegations, one former priest claimed Cardinal O'Brien made an inappropriate approach to him in 1980, after night prayers, when he was a seminarian at St Andrew's College, Drygrange.

BBC: Cardinal Keith O'Brien

The former priest claims Cardinal O'Brien made an inappropriate approach to him in 1980, after night prayers, when he was a seminarian at St Andrew's College, Drygrange, the Observer says.

BBC: Cardinal Keith O'Brien