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In UK Visit, Pope Admits Failures Over Sex Abuse

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(Sept. 16) -- Before he landed today in Britain for a historic first-ever state visit, Pope Benedict XVI delivered his harshest comments yet about the Catholic Church's response to sex abuse, admitting that the hierarchy failed to act decisively against priests who rape or molest children. The pope acknowledged that "the...

Reader Feedback: Patriotism, Church, College, Swine Flu and More

(April 22) -- Editor's note: Below is a sampling of reader feedback we received to op-eds published on AOL News over the past week. The comments have been edited for length and clarity. A Modest Proposal for Anti-Government Crowd -- By Alan Colmes Alan seems to be under the false impression that tea party members in...

Cardinal Disinvited to Latin Mass at DC Basilica

(April 22) -- The nation's largest Catholic church has disinvited a former Vatican official from the first traditional Latin Mass in nearly 45 years because the cardinal once praised a bishop for failing to report a pedophile priest. Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos was to deliver the elaborate mass on Saturday at the Basilica...

Debate: 4 Things the Pope Needs to Do

(April 20) -- My entry for the topic "pedophilia" in the 2007 Encyclopedia of Catholicism states: "Nothing has damaged the Catholic Church at the turn of the millennium more than the pedophile scandal. Many observers remain perplexed by the Vatican's continuing obtuseness toward the seriousness of the scandal." Unabated,...

Vatican Priest: Church Attacks Like Anti-Semitism

(April 2) -- While Pope Benedict XVI watched somberly near the central altar, a senior Vatican priest used his Good Friday homily at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to compare recent attacks on the Catholic Church to anti-Semitism. The Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa quoted from what he said was a letter from an unnamed Jewish...