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	Vatican: Sex Abuse More Than a Church Mess By Greg Burke Fox News March 9, 2010 http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/09/vatican-sex-abuse-more-than-a-church-mess/?test=latestnews A Vatican spokesman that Tuesday that Church officials were responding quickly and decisively to the most recent charges of sex abuse in Catholic institutions in Europe. “The correct starting point is the recognition of what happened, and concern for the victims,” said Father Federico Lombardi on Vatican Radio. In recent weeks, charges of abuse have rocked the Catholic Church, especially in Germany, but also Austria and the Netherlands. Pope Benedict is scheduled to write a letter to Catholics in Ireland before Easter addressing the sex scandal there. Benedict has already said he felt “betrayal and shame” after seeing reports of three decades of abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin. Lombardi said the problem of sex abuse has to be seen in a wider context, that of society at large, although he acknowledged that it’s particularly repugnant when found in the Catholic Church because of the moral responsibility of clerics. “But everyone who’s objective and informed knows that the question is much wider, and that concentrating the accusations against the Church means falsifying the perspective,” Lombardi said.
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