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	Vatican 'Astonished' at Belgian Police Raid Associated Press June 25, 2010 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gI5tWYlvPP5P0wkYeyn3thMVdP6wD9GIBBHG0 VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has expressed "astonishment" and "dismay" that Belgian police raided the home and former office of the recently retired archbishop of Belgium as part of an investigation into priestly child abuse. The Vatican said any sinful and criminal abuse of minors from members of the church must be condemned. But in a statement Friday it expressed its "astonishment at the way in which the search took place." The statement by the Vatican's Secretariat of State condemned what it said was the violation of the confidentiality due the victims of child abuse. Police seized the records of an independent panel investigating sexual abuse by priests, some 500 cases in all. The victims are mostly men now in their 60s and 70s.
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