Man and a Women
Description: EDINBURGH, Scotland As Pope Benedict XVI arrived here Thursday for the first state visit to Britain by a pope, he offered his strongest criticism yet of the Roman Catholic Churchs handling of the sex abuse crisis, saying it had not been sufficiently vigilant or sufficiently swift and decisive in cracking down on abuser
Speaking to reporters on his flight from Rome, Benedict also said that the churchs first interest is the victims.
I must say that these revelations were a shock for me, a great sadness, he said of the crisis that has undermined the churchs moral authority in many parts of Europe and beyond.
He expressed sadness also that the authority of the church was not was not sufficiently vigilant and not sufficiently swif