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Wed 03 Mar 2010German laity urge pope to speak on clerical sex abuse
GERMANY’S LEADING Catholic lay organisation has called on Pope Benedict to speak out about the country’s growing clerical abuse scandal, including cases dating back to his time as archbishop of Munich.
Ahead of tomorrow’s Vatican visit of the head of the German bishops’ conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, German priests have appealed to the pope to broaden the scope of his pending pastoral letter to Irish Catholics to address the abuse scandal in his homeland.
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