天主教会内部的性虐待辩护，称在处理上性虐待案件上“透明、坚决和严厉”。
纽约时报星期三发表有关文件说，教皇在1990年代担任枢机主教时对有关墨菲神父在美国中心部的威斯康辛州虐待儿童的情况，视若罔闻。梵帝冈的发言人说，教皇当时是约瑟夫-拉青格枢机主教，他决定不免去被控性虐待神父的职务，因为他年事已高，患病在身，而且没有新的虐待指称。
《罗马观察家报》及圣座新闻发布中心驳斥《纽约时报》指控
(亚洲新闻 2010年3月26日)
梵蒂冈城（亚洲新闻）—在此，我们全文发表《罗马观察家报》今天驳斥美国《纽约时报》报道（24/03/2010）的文章。《纽约时报》撰文介绍了一名七十年代遭到美国警方调查的娈童司铎劳伦斯·墨菲神父案，并指责梵蒂冈和教宗本笃十六世，即当时的圣座信理部部长拉青格枢机不但没有采取任何措施，将墨菲降为平信徒，还试图掩盖事实。在此，我们全文刊登圣座新闻发布中心主任费德里克·隆巴尔蒂神父就这篇报道致函《纽约时报》的声明（英文版）。
《罗马观察家报》文章：
No cover-up
Transparency, firmness and severity in shedding light on several cases of sexual abuse by priests and religious: these are the criteria that Benedict XVI is indicating, with constancy and serenity, to the entire Church. A work method - consistent with his personal history and more than twenty years of experience as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – that is feared by those who apparently do not want the truth to be asserted but who would prefer to exploit, without any foundation in fact, horrible episodes and painful events in some cases dating back to decades ago. The most recent example of this is seen in an article published today by the U.S. newspaper “The New York Times”, along with a commentary about the serious case of the priest Lawrence C. Murphy, responsible for abuses committed on hearing-impaired children in a Catholic institution, where he worked from 1950 to 1974.
According to the reconstruction made in the article, based on the wide documentation provided by the lawyers of some of the victims, the reports concerning the conduct of the priests were only sent in July 1996 by the then Archbishop of Milwaukee, Rembert G. Weakland to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – of which Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was prefect and Archbis
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