Radio Netherlands
March 24, 2010
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/abuse-scandal-affects-popes-popularity
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The child sex abuse scandal rocking the Roman Catholic Church has led to a serious drop in the popularity of Pope Benedict XVI.
Opinion polls conducted by the German magazine Stern show that the pontiff's popularity with a cross-section of Germans has dropped from 38 to 24 percent since the end of January. His popularity with members of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany has fallen from 62 to 39 percent.
The most recent poll was taken between 17 March and 19 March, before the pope had written his letter about abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland. The polls show that the popularity of the German Roman Catholic Church itself has dropped from 29 to 17 percent.
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