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  • Pope: Church must reflect on what's wrong with Christianity that allowed sex abuse [AP Lie]

    12/21/2010 6:22:04 AM PST · by the invisib1e hand · 49 replies · 2+ views
    AP via KTVB.com ^ | Dec 20, 9:33 PM EST | NICOLE WINFIELD
    VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI told Vatican officials Monday that they must reflect on the church's culpability in its child sex-abuse scandal, but he also blamed a secular society in which he said the mistreatment of children was frighteningly common. In his traditional, end-of-the-year speech to Vatican cardinals and bishops, Benedict said revelations of abuse in 2010 reached "an unimaginable dimension" that required the church to accept the "humiliation" as a call for renewal. "We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing...