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Pope meets with clergy abuse victims in Australia
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Support groups for victims of church abuse in Australia, whose numbers are not known but who activists say are in the thousands, had demanded the pope make a full and open apology for clergy abuse and do more to prevent future abuse. (article 12)
Sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has shadowed the pope's visit to Sydney, with emotional pleas by victims and their families for the pope to ensure that the Church deals openly with the issue. (article 2)
" As an expression of his ongoing pastoral concern for those who have been abused by members of the clergy, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI today celebrated Mass with a representative group of victims the Vatican said in a statement. (article 2)
The pontiff held prayers and spoke with four representatives of abuse victims - two men and two women - in the last hours of his 9-day visit to Australia for the church's global youth festival. (article 5)
(CNN) Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday offered his strongest public statement yet on sex abuse against minors by Roman Catholic priests, apologizing to victims and calling the abuse " evil. (article 6)
The Pope has held a surprise last-minute private mass with four Australian sexual abuse victims, seeking to reinforce his apology for the "evil" of paedophile priests. (article 3)
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Pope, Victims, Benedict, abuse, AUSTRALIA |
Source articles
- Pope meets clergy abuse victims (BBC News, 07/21/2008, 294 words)
- Pope meets Australian victims of clergy sex abuse (Washington Post, 07/20/2008, 290 words)
- Pope meets sex abuse victims in secret Sydney mass -Times Online (timesonline.co.uk, 07/18/2008, 452 words)
- Pope meets abuse victims in Australia (msnbc.msn.com, 07/20/2008, 696 words)
- Pope meets with clergy abuse victims in Australia (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 07/20/2008, 565 words)
- Pope says sorry for 'evil' of clergy sex abuse (CNN, 07/18/2008, 287 words)
- Pope apologizes for church abuse in Australia (cbc.ca, 07/19/2008, 447 words)
- Pope apologizes for clerics' sex abuse (L.A. Times, 07/19/2008, 195 words)
- Los Angeles Times (L.A. Times, 07/20/2008, 662 words)
- Pope sorry for priests' sex abuse (BBC News, 07/19/2008, 505 words)
- Pope urges youths to build 'a new age' - (baltimoresun.com, 07/21/2008, 383 words)
- Pope apologizes for clergy abuse - (baltimoresun.com, 07/21/2008, 341 words)
- Pope urges all faiths to unite (cbc.ca, 07/18/2008, 592 words)
- Pope Warns Youth Against Self-Absorption (nytimes.com, 07/21/2008, 401 words)
- Pope links prosperity with spreading 'spiritual desert' (cbc.ca, 07/20/2008, 292 words)
- Pope warns of 'spiritual desert' (BBC News, 07/20/2008, 405 words)
- The best on Benedict: a selection of papal biographies -Times Online (timesonline.co.uk, 07/18/2008, 344 words)
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