Pope says clergy abuse scandal sometimes ‘badly handled’
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Feted at the White House on his 81st birthday, Pope Benedict XVI praised Americans for their deep religious beliefs Wednesday but later told the nation’s bishops that the scourge of clergy sex abuse had sometimes been “very badly handled.”
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Benedict returned to the clergy sex abuse scandal that has cost the American church more than $2 billion, most paid out to victims in the last six years, calling it a cause of “deep shame.” He decried the “enormous pain” that communities have suffered from such “gravely immoral behavior” by priest.
Sounds fine, right? Well, no. Guess who gets the blame for it all:
Benedict addressed clerical molesters in the wider context of secularism and the over-sexualization of America. “What does it mean to speak of child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?” he asked.
Because, you see, it wasn’t the poor priests who raped these kids for years and years and then tried to hide the facts from the world, it was that evil secularism that did it – and the media, of course…!”