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Pope: Church Too Slow to Respond to Sex Abuse
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Sep 16, 2010 10:22am |
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| Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
| News Date | Thursday, September 16, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Pope Benedict XVI began a controversial visit to Britain on Thursday by acknowledging the Catholic Church had not acted decisively or quickly enough against priests who molested children. He said the church's top priority now was to help abuse victims heal.
The pope's comments to reporters traveling with him from Rome marked his most thorough admission to date of church failures to stop pedophile priests, but they again failed to satisfy victims' groups. The issue has reignited with recent revelations of hundreds of victims in Belgium, including at least 13 of whom had committed suicide.
Benedict told a large group of reporters onboard his plane that the sex abuse scandal had been a "shock" to him, reports CBS Radio News' Sabina Castelfranco, who flew to Britain with the pope.
The pontiff acknowledged the Church itself, and its leadership, was at least partly to blame for allowing the problem to go on for so long. |
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