Vatican says bid to link pope to abuse issue failed

All r the "It's rather clear that in recent days there have been people who have searched -- with notable tenacity in Regensburg and Munich -- for elements to personally involve the Holy Father in the question of the abuses," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told Vatican Radio.The "To any objective observer, it's clear that these attempts have failed."pope's former diocese in Bavaria said on Friday he was involved in a decision in 1980 to move a priest there who was suspected of child abuse.pontiff -- then Joseph Ratzinger -- jointly agreed to the