Adnkronos
May 12, 2010
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.1.351174466
Vaiano Cremasco , 6 May (AKI) - A council in the north of Italy has rejected a proposal from a Communist councillor who sought to condemn Pope Benedict XVI for what he considered inaction over the paedophile scandal engulfing the Catholic Church. The Vaiano Cremasco council voted against the measure proposed by council member and former mayor Giovanni Alchieri who called on his colleagues to express their "lack of solidarity" over the pope's failure to take action on clerical sex abuse claims.
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Vaiano Cremasco, is a small town 40 kilometres from Milan with 4,000 people.
Alchieri cast the sole vote in favour of the proposal, and the 17-member council rejected the move.
The Vatican is seeking to contain the damage caused by the alleged sexual abuse of thousands of children by paedophile clerics and lay brothers over the past 60 years in Europe and North America.
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi expressed his solidarity with the pope after Benedict issued an historic pastoral letter expressing a heartfelt apology over sexual abuse in the Irish Catholic Church. Berlusconi described it as an incredibly effective response to a difficult situation.
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