The interview with Giuseppe dalla Torre, head of the Vatican's tribunal, was published in Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper as Pope Benedict began Holy Thursday services in St Peter's Basilica and Catholics marked the most solemn week of the liturgical calendar, culminating on Sunday in Easter Day.
The pope did not refer in his sermon to the crisis of confidence sweeping the Church as almost daily revelations surface of sexual abuse of children in the past, accompanied by allegations of a cover-up.'
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It is hard for me as an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucaristy to give an opinion. To have abused just one single person is a remarkable shame thing... God hates the sin but loves the sinner and hopes he would repent...Personally, I don't want to be in the presence of Our Heavenly Father without Jesus on my side.
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