Quotes of the Day
Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011
I can understand that in the face of such reports, people, especially those close to victims, would say, 'This isn't my church anymore.'
- POPE BENEDICT XVI,
- acknowledging, before his first official visit to Germany, his home country, that displeasure with the Catholic Church's handling of child sex abuse by clergy is a reason a record 181,000 German Catholics officially quit the church last year
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