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	Pope Says Sex Scandal Has Hit Unimaginable Dimension By Rachel Donadio New York Times December 20, 2010 https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/world/europe/21pope.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26srcQ3Dmv [Log in to manage your products and services from The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.] Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that the continuing sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church had reached a “degree we could not have imagined” this year, and that the Church must reflect on its failures, help the victims, and prevent abusers from becoming priests. “We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred,” the pope told the Vatican hierarchy in a pointed Christmas message. “We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen.” In recent months, investigations in Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have found that clerics had sexually abused children in the past and that the church hierarchy was often found to have covered up the abuse.
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