A civil lawsuit against the late Pope Benedict XVI, his fellow church officials and his successor will still be heard despite the pontiff's death on New Year's Eve, The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.
The case and a declaratory action were brought in June by a 38-year-old German man — using the pseudonym Julian Schwarz — who accused the former pope of dismissing complaints about convicted pedophile, Father Peter Hullermann. Schwarz said the priest showed him pornography and forced him to have sexual intercourse and oral sex when he was between 11 and 12 years of age.
