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Pope deplores child abuse
Posted on: Tue February 09, 2010
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VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI on Monday again condemned Roman Catholics who have violated children s rights, a week before a meeting with Irish bishops over a sex abuse scandal.
The Church, over the centuries... has promoted the protection of the rights and dignity of minors, the pope said on the 20 th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. Repeated revelations of paedophile priests have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in recent months.
In November, it emerged that Church authorities in Ireland covered up for priests who abused children in the mainly Catholic country for three decades. Last month, an elite Jesuit school in Berlin admitted systematic sexual abuse of teenagers by at least two priests in the 1970s and 1980s.
Courtesy : The News