[twhitak]

'We will do everything possible'

Castration?

[trisham]

"We insistently ask for forgiveness from God and the persons involved," the pope told some 15,000 priests from all over the world at a Mass in St Peter's marking the end of the Year of the Priest.

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May God bless and protect our beloved Pope Benedict.

[The Great RJ]

How about defrocking and excommunicating any bishop who knowing hid abuse and turning everything they know about abuse over to local prosecutors so the perpetrators can be punished? To me the greater scandal is that many higher-ups in the Church knew about the abuse and did nothing. For good example start by publicly excommunicating Rembert Weakland the former Bishop who used church funds to cover up his own homosexual affairs. While apologies and expressions of regret are OK the Pope needs to show resolve to do what is right.

[conservonator]

The Catholic Church has this year been rocked by a series of sex abuse scandals and has had to fend off allegations that the Vatican covered up a number of cases.

While there is no doubt that there has been abuse and cover ups, how many being reported now are current events and not "uncovering" of long past events? *note to the "any stick to beat the Church" usual suspects: this is not an excuse, equivocation or in any way an attempt to diminish the vile acts of some priests, religious or Bishops.

[Marty62]

Every Story I have read leaves out the Popes referrence to the EVIL ONE working to drive people away from belief.

Do you know where we can find a Complete address. NOT the filtered version from the secular msm?

[Grunthor]

“The 83-year-old pontiff vowed to “do everything possible to make sure such abuse can never happen again”.

Pretty wods, but that would be like trying to stop the tides. Now if he wanted to say that he was going to do everything possible to ensure that any past cover-ups are exposed and that no future cover-ups can be successful, THAT would be putting some meat on the bones.