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Go to "the" link for Rembert G. Weakland's interview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8588025.stm
For the first time, the Pope himself has been implicated over sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.
He is accused of doing nothing when given the chance to defrock a priest, Rev Lawrence Murphy, who molested deaf boys in his care.
The BBC's Eddie Mair has spoken to Rembert G. Weakland, who, in 1996, when he was Archbishop of Milwaukee, tried to blow the whistle.
He wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger, who is now Pope, and had a meeting with his then deputy, Cardinal Bertone, who is now the Vatican's secretary of state.
He told the PM programme that when he became Archbishop of Milwaukee in 1977, Father Murphy already had many abuse allegations against him.
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