Pope Benedict XVI has said he will apologise for a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in Australia.
As he headed to Australia on the longest foreign trip of his papacy, he said that paedophilia was "incompatible" with being a priest. Benedict's six-day trip coincides with the reopening of an abuse case involving a Sydney priest and dating back to 1982. The St Vitus's cathedral definitively belongs to Czech state -court ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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