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	Strong Words from the Pope during His U.S. Visit Sarnia Observer (Canada) April 21, 2008 http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=995269 Pope Benedict XVI, supreme pontiff of the world's one billion Roman Catholics, is being lauded for his admission that "great pain" has been caused by the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic clergy. The Pope reportedly opened the topic on the plane on his way from Rome to the U.S., where he made an official visit. The Pope has promised that pedophiles will be screened from seminaries and will not be allowed to become priests in the future. These are handsome words from His Holiness. But handsome is as handsome does. It's one thing to think you can keep pedophiles out of seminaries, but it is quite another to keep vigilance, to make sure that, if and when such situations arise with any priest, swift and sure action is taken to remove him, not from the parish, but from the priesthood, and he be turned over to the secular authorities for justice.
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