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Levada's comments flowed out of a discussion initiated by this reporter's question regarding the Pope: having been so forthcoming about the abuse scandal during this trip, would he address one of its more disturbing aspects, by sanctoning supervisors and even bishops who had "aided and abetted" the crimes? Levada responded that cases would have to be judged individually: "I would want to see the situations that we'd be talking about," he said. "I personally do not accept that there is a broad base of bishops who are guilty of 'aiding and abetting' pedophiles...
David Cloughessy, national director of the victim's organization SNAP (for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), has been skeptical of any substantive change based on the Pope's admission of shame over the scandal, or his meeting with several victims. Levada's comments, says Cloughessy, were "a step beyond 'I feel badly about it' and a step below actually taking action...
...blindness to the needs of the members of the church that this Pope will not put into place the changes needed to make the church available to all who seek it - namely, married priests and women priests. I have left the church because of the priest abuse scandals and the lack of outrage by previous Popes over this moral hide - and - seek game that the church has played for many years. The Pope's statement on this scandal will be too little too late. Carol M. Fleming, Suttons Bay, Michigan...
...blindness to the needs of the members of the church that this Pope will not put into place the changes needed to make the church available to all who seek it--namely, married priests and women priests. I have left the church because of the priest abuse scandals and the lack of outrage by previous Popes over this moral hide-and-seek game that the church has played for many years. The Pope's statement on this scandal will be too little too late. Carol M. Fleming, SUTTONS BAY, MICH...
...called our "individualistic and eclectic approach to faith," he said this can lead to what he noted St. Paul termed a temptation to "conform to the spirit of the age." The Pope then gave a pointed example: "We have seen this emerge in an acute way in the scandal given by Catholics who promote an alleged right to abortion...