Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church must think, what is wrong with your message and practices for the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests allowed.
In its traditional end of the year, the Pope said speech to the Vatican Cardinals and bishops on Monday the reports of abuse by priests on a "unimaginable" scale had a devastating blow of the Church and must be used as a starting point for the reform.
"We have to accept this humiliation as a warning to the truth and a call for renewal," he said, according to an Italian text released by the Vatican. "We must ask ourselves what... was mistaken in our message that something could happen." "We must force us anything in preparation for the priesthood to try that to something not to happen again."
Associated Press Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing on the occasion of the traditional exchange of Christmas greetings to the Curia in the regia Hall in the Vatican Tuesday, January 20, 2010.Christmas the Vatican is Cardinals and bishops an eagerly awaited address used by the Pope the ecclesiastical hierarchy focus on key issues.
Earlier this year the Pope asked forgiveness for the scandal that rocked the Church and set-off protests around the world. Interest groups abuse victims say there is more to be done.
In his speech he said Pope had the Church, their responsibility for the sins of priests to accept. But he said the scandal in a wider social context must be seen. We can be silence in the context of the time, experienced these events, he said.
"In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something completely in harmony with man and with children," said the Pope. "It was maintained - even in the realm of Catholic theology - that there is no such thing as evil in itself or in itself good." It's just a better than ' and a ' worse than.' "Nothing is good or bad in itself."
As an avalanche of cases pedophile priests to light, its previous practice of from users in therapy, to put not prison by saying that at the time was the norm in society often defended church officials. Only unofficial guidelines for bishops have this year the Vatican post on your site report pedophile priests police if local laws require this.
The Pope said "The impact of such theories today are obvious". On Monday, he repeated that the church a better job screening from perpetrators and victims to heal do to help.
Victim advocates say the Vatican has still a long way to go to the bishops report require sex crime, police and information and documentation about the known paedophiles.
Barbara Blaine, President of the most important U.S. victims group survivors network of those abused by priests, the scandal said culture of secrecy in which predator priests and bishops moved, instead you was not caused by the culture of the 1970s, but by the Church in turn were rarely disciplined.
That abuse scandal that first exploded in the United States in 2002, broke globally this year with revelations of thousands of victims in Europe and beyond, bishops who covered up for pedophile priest and the Vatican officials that enabled an eye to the crimes for decades.
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