Remembering the pope

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Vatican City can watch ceremonies remembering the pope on giant screens.

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There was an interview on Radio Europa Mediterraneo radio recently...
by linnetwoods April 16, 2005 12:54 PM PDT: ...with a woman who had flown to Rome to protest at the fact that a clergyman she saw giving a soliloquy for the defunct pope on televison was precisely the man she had personally alerted the pontiff about years earlier, because he had a history of being caught abusing children and being moved to other parishes instead of being stopped. The lady represents a group of three thousand adults who were sexually abused by catholic clergy as children, the vast majority being boys who were as young as eight when they suffered this systematic abuse. The group is determined to make the catholic church face up to what they describe as an ongoing problem within it's ranks.

Someone else on the same program (the radio station broadcasts from London, England and Marbella in Spain, encourages outspokenness within moral and decent limits and is listened to all over the world via their website, rem.fm) was fuming about the pope's refusal to endorse the use of protective methods that would prevent the spread of disease and death.

It was fascinating to hear something other than the usual droning obits from the rest of the media!; Like this Reply to this comment

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