VATICAN CITY -- Facing heavy pressure to take a personal role in the ongoing clergy sex abuse crisis, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday met privately with eight men who said that as children they were sexually abused by priests in Malta, the island nation Benedict visited on Sunday.
According to a statement from the Vatican about the meeting with victims, the pope "was deeply moved by their stories and expressed his shame and sorrow over what victims and their families have suffered."
…But the pontiff has not met with abuse victims in a year, and as a new wave of revelations broke earlier this year, they raised questions of Benedict's own role in several cases when he was an archbishop in his native Germany and later as the Vatican's top watchdog on orthodoxy and morals.
Benedict has, however, resisted calls for him to speak publicly or personally about his reactions to the scandals or his own role in the crisis over the past three decades. Read more - by David Gibson – Politics Daily
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“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.” Erik Erikson
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“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.” Erik Erikson
…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6
Protect children and the entire world will be safe.Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children. Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
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