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November 26, 2011
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(VATICAN CITY) -- Pope Benedict defended the Catholic Church's response to the sex abuse scandal to a group of U.S. bishops on Saturday at the Vatican.
Speaking to a group led by Archbishop Timothy Dolan, President of the U.S. Bishops conference, the Pope defended what he said were the church's honest efforts to confront the priestly sexual abuse scandal with transparency. But he also said other institutions needed to be held to the same standards as the church.
Dolan is on the record about the church's need to restore credibility in the U.S., a challenge the Pope acknowledged cannot be underestimated.
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