Exactly one year later , the darkest clouds gather over the Catholic Church. As though out of a deep abyss, countless incomprehensible cases of sexual abuse from the past come to light – acts committed by priests and religious. The clouds cast their shadows even on the Chair of Peter. Now no one is talking any more about the moral authority for the world that is usually granted a pope. How great is this crisis? Is it really, as we occasionally read, one of the greatest in the history of the Church?
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Light of the World: an extract on the abuse crisis
An extract of Peter Seewald's interview with Pope Benedict from Light of the World, the Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times
The Catholic Herald
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