Pope 'failed to act' on US sex abuse claims March 25, 2010 by Fulcrum The sex abuse scandal enveloping the Catholic Church moved closer to Pope Benedict XVI today with revelations that in the 1990s the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger failed to defrock an American priest who molested hundreds of deaf boys. Anne Barrowclough, Times, 25 March 2010 FulcrumShareTweetShare