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Vatican defends accusations against Pope from Germany

The Vatican has described accusations that Pope Benedict XVI was involved in covering up a German sex abuse case as part of a campaign to discredit him.

At the same time a group of reform-minded Catholics in the pontiff's home country has called on him to speak about the wider sex abuse scandal currently in the headlines there.

Some media in Germany have linked the action, or non-action, taken against a paedophile priest to Benedict during his period as archbishop of Munich in the early 1980s. Along with this, the Roman Catholic reform group We are Church has criticised the Pope and the church for not doing enough to speak on a wider scandal dating back some decades in which clerics and church institutions are said to have been involved in sex abuse against children. At the Vatican Press Office, the Rev. Federico Lombardi said on 14 March.

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[03/16/2010]

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