Pope Benedict XVI
told Vatican
officials Monday that they must reflect on the church's culpability in its child sex-abuse scandal, but he also blamed a secular society
in which he said the mistreatment of children was frighteningly common. (notice that whenever the church makes any sort of apology there is always a very big BUT blaming the rest of society for their criminal behaviour?)In his traditional, end-of-the-year speech to Vatican cardinals and bishops
, Benedict said revelations of abuse in 2010
reached “an unimaginable dimension” that required the church to accept the “humiliation
” as a call for renewal.“In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the pope said. (In other words. It was okay to rape and molest children back in the good old days)
