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Cardinal sees need to 'clean up' Church after sex-abuse scandal

March 08, 2010

Cardinal Walter Kasper said that the sex-abuse scandals now arising in several countries point to the need for "a wider analysis, for maybe the whole Church and not just one country."

"We have to seriously clean up the Church," the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity told the Italian daily La Repubblica.

 

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  • Posted by: JimKcda - Mar. 08, 2010 10:41 PM ET USA

    Getting rid of the Homosexuals in the Clergy would be a good start -- or even admitting that they are a problem!

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