he was archbishopjoseph ratzinger. and the report s authors say it was there that he in effect failed to act in four child six abuse cases. they say that he knowingly allowed three brief who had convictions for crimes against children to work in the diocese and he also focused on the case of another cleric who was a known paedophile when he was transferred to the diocese to carry on working as a priest. pope benedict who denies all wrongdoing has said that he knew nothing about the background of that particular man, but the report s authors under minutes of a meeting at which this particular man whose case s transfer was discussed in the former pope said he had never been at that meeting. reports also say that they look to those minutes and it was quite clear from the minutes that he had indeed been there. we have had nothing indirectly from the former pope who was in his 90s but the vatican have issued a statement saying they