| Last June, a Vatican tribunal ruled to defrock the former archbishop. |
| It has no power to send anybody to prison but it can be used to defrock a priest or excommunicate a lay-person. |
| Journalists rarely understand the full power of the press, but one authority we don't have is the power to defrock priests. |
| Even after he became pope, Ratzinger refused to defrock this monster priest or provide the evidence against him to the police. |
| In the US in 1985, a group of American bishops wrote to Ratzinger begging him to defrock a priest called Father Stephen Kiesle, who had tied up and molested two young boys in a rectory. |
| Wesolowski is appealing the decision to defrock him and a final decision will be made in October. |
