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	Paedophilia a Scourge, Says Pope Irish Times November 28, 2011 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1128/1224308219886.htm THE POPE has said that all institutions – and not just the church – should be held to exacting standards in the response against sex abuse. His address to American bishops in the Vatican on Saturday coincided with the second anniversary of the Murphy report, published on November 26th, 2009, which investigated the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations by church and State authorities in the Dublin archdiocese. Pope Benedict told the bishops the paedophilia scandals were a "scourge" for society, and that the church was making "conscientious efforts" to confront the problem. He acknowledged that decades of scandals involving the clergy's sexual abuse of young people had disoriented the faithful in the US.
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