Topic: Christianity
Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here — a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups. The church is only beginning to ...
The pope should apologise to Irish sex abuse victims and admit the Catholic church abused its power and deliberately covered up the activities of paedophile priests, a leading victims' group said Friday. The One in Four group set out what they want Pope Benedict XVI to say in his pastoral letter to Ireland's Catholics about the clerical abuse scandal ...
There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal. Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the leader of Catholics in England and Wales, told BBC television that although "scandalous", cases of child abuse by clergy ...
