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Pope Benedict XVI has rebuked Irish bishops for "grave errors of judgement" in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered a Vatican investigation into the Irish church to wipe out the scourge. scandal and no specific punishments doled out for bishops blamed by victims and Irish government-ordered investigations for having covered up years of abuse.  

Pope apologizes to Irish sex abuse victims Pope Benedict XVI has released a letter apologizing for years of physical and sexual abuse suffered by Irish children at the hands of priests. New B.C. avalanche kills snowmobiler A massive avalanche in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry on Friday killed at least one snowmobiler, injured two others and sparked a search for anyone else caught in the second deadly slide in the area in the past week. Dozens stuck on impassable Manitoba roads Officials sa  

 

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I'll tell you what pressure is   -Keith Miller

 

Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland today in a letter apologising for the country's sex abuse scandal - a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups. The church is only beginning to come to terms with decades of child abuse in its parishes and schools. The scandals first emerged in Canada and Australia in the 1980s, followed by Ireland in the 1990s, the United States this decade and, in recent months, Benedict's  

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1. Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Church in Ireland, it is with great concern that I write to you as Pastor of the universal Church. Like yourselves, I have been deeply disturbed by the information which has come to light regarding the abuse of children and vulnerable young people by members of the Church in Ireland, particularly by priests and religious.  

A MAN has been locked up for burgling and ransacking a church in a crime condemned by a former priest as 'sacrilege'. Lee Pope, aged 20, right, broke into a room at St Margaret Mary Roman Catholic Church in Plymstock and stole sacred items including rosary beads, Plymouth magistrates heard. Presiding magistrate Peter Bailey, sending Pope to a young offenders' institution for 26 weeks, said: "This is an offence against society in that you broke into a church and ransacked it, stealing various items."

After that he began to lose control.   -Stephen Walker

 

The House Rules Committee is meeting to set the terms for debating and voting on the health care overhaul bill. Meanwhile, a top House Democrat says party leaders are likely to move ahead without the support of Democrats who want to toughen the bill's restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortions. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict is scolding the clerics who sexually abused children in Ireland and the bishops he says made "serious mistakes" in handling the cases.  

There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric says, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal. Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the leader of Catholics in England and Wales, told BBC television that although "scandalous", cases of child abuse by clergy were no more frequent than in wider society. "The vast majority of the abuse of children happens within their families where people are n

The vast majority of the abuse of children happens within their families where people are not celibate   -Vincent Nichols