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Pope decries abortion, same-sex marriage at Fatima

NICOLE WINFIELD Breitbart.com 05/13/2010
Baseball hat Benedict: Pope sports a very casual cap

It is not the sort of get-up you'd expect the Pope to sport. But Pope Benedict XVI broke with tradition by wearing a baseball cap as he went for a stroll around his summer residence on Sunday.

Pope decries abortion, same-sex marriage at Fatima

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday called abortion and same-sex marriage some of the most "insidious and dangerous" threats facing the world today, asserting key church teachings as he tried to move beyond the clerical abuse scandal.

Pope: Church's own sins to blame in sex scandal

BARRY HATTON Yahoo! News 05/11/2010

Bring the Pope to Justice

Christopher Hitchens Newsweek 04/27/2010
Pope: Church's own sins to blame in sex scandal

In his most thorough admission of the church's guilt in the clerical sex abuse scandal, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday the greatest persecution of the institution "is born from the sins within the church," and not from a campaign by outsiders.

Bring the Pope to Justice

Detain or subpoena the pope for questioning in the child-rape scandal? You must be joking! All right then, try the only alternative formulation: declare the pope to be above and beyond all local and international laws, and immune when it comes to his personal and institutional responsibility for sheltering criminals. The joke there would be on us.

British ministers apologise for insult to Pope

Jonathan Wynne-Jones Telegraph 04/25/2010
British ministers apologise for insult to Pope

The Government has apologised to the Pope over official documents that mocked his forthcoming visit to Britain by suggesting he should bless a gay marriage and even launch Papal-branded condoms.

Pope Benedict sheds tears as he meets victims of clerical sex abuse

Pope Benedict XVI shed tears on Sunday as he met victims of clerical sex abuse in Malta, expressing his "shame and sorrow" and promising "effective measures" to protect young people in future.

British atheist activists planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested during his UK visit

British atheist campaigners are planning to file a legal complaint with the Crown Prosecution Service in order to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested during his state visit to Britain this coming September “for crimes against humanity”.

US lawyer wants court to question Pope over child sex scandal; claims Benedict knew of abuse cases

A United States lawyer has filed a legal motion at a Kentucky court on Tuesday to take sworn testimony from Pope Benedict XVI on what the Vatican knew about the long-running child sex scandal of Roman Catholic priests.

Child abuse at Pope Benedict's brother's choir and German schools

German Roman Catholic priests beat and sexually abused boys in at least three schools in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria state on Friday, one linked to a renowned choir led by his brother from 1964 to 1994.

Pope Benedict XVI condemns child abuse as 'heinous crime'

The sexual abuse of children is not just a "heinous crime" but a "grave sin" that offends God and wounds human dignity, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday after a two-day meeting with Irish Catholic bishops at the Vatican.


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