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Showing Original Post only (View all)Pope tells 75,000 at Dublin stadium Mass that child abuse by priests ‘remains a mystery’ [View all]
VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI told Irish Catholics on Sunday it is a mystery why priests and other church officials abused children entrusted in their care, undermining faith in the church in an appalling way.
By describing the decades of child abuse in Catholic parishes, schools and church-run institutions and parishes in Ireland as a mystery, the pontiff could further anger rank-and-file faithful in Ireland.
Benedict commented on the scandals of sexual abuse and cover-ups by church hierarchy in a pre-recorded video message for an outdoor Mass attended by 75,000 Catholics, many from overseas, in Irelands largest sports stadium. Irelands prime minister and president attended the Mass, the final event of a Eucharistic Congress aimed at shoring up flagging faith.
The weeklong Eucharistic Congress, held by the Vatican every four years in a different part of the world, took place against a backdrop of deep anger over child abuse cover-ups and surveys showing declining weekly Mass attendance in Ireland, where church and state were once tightly entwined. ..................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/pope-to-irish-child-abuse-by-clergy-shook-catholic-faith-calls-motive-a-mystery/2012/06/17/gJQANxbOjV_story.html
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Pope tells 75,000 at Dublin stadium Mass that child abuse by priests ‘remains a mystery’ [View all]
marmar
Jun 2012
OP
yeah. gravity is a mystery too - but there is great gravity in his use of this term.
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2012
#8
The mystery's why those kids kept sexually attacking those innocent priests, right, Rat?
ChairmanAgnostic
Jun 2012
#9