Pope blames "permissive" society for priest child abuse!!! No kidding...

The worldwide “humiliation” that the church has experienced as a result of the scandal must serve as a spur to reform, Benedict XVnI told his cardinals gathered in Rome.

However, the pontiff argued that the abuse crisis must be seen in its social “context”, suggesting that part of the blame lay with permissive attitudes in western society dating from the 1970s.

Survivors of clerical sex abuse condemned the Pope’s statement as another attempt by Church authorities to evade responsibility for the scandal. More...


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