Retired Pope Benedict XVI asks for forgiveness
Retired Pope Benedict XVI has begged for forgiveness for any “grievous faults” in his handling of sexual-abuse allegations in the Catholic Church, but he denied any personal wrongdoing. “I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate,” he said in a statement.
The retired pontiff’s comments came in response to allegations by a German law firm that he allowedto take place while he served as head of the church’s Munich diocese before he became pope. The report, which also singled out his successors and predecessors, concluded that sexual abuse in the church had left a trail of nearly 500 victims. There were an estimated 235 alleged perpetrators.
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