re: #14 Charles

Beat me to it - almost certainly they’re looking for DNA, to match to samples from abused children.

How would they have those samples?
Would they have taken the samples years ago, when those priests were still alive? If samples were taken, then the incidents must have been reported to the police at that time - why did the police not take action at that time?

That’s the part that’s confusing to me, the searching of the graves.

But Benedict’s reaction is not one bit defensible.