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Sunday Sequence - POPE BENEDICT APOLOGISES

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The child abuse crisis facing the Catholic Church in Ireland is now headline news around the world. Pope Benedict used his historic Pastoral Letter to Irish Catholics to apologise to the victims of clerical abuse. He says the credibility of Ireland's Catholics bishops has been undermined by their failure to deal properly with abuse allegations. Where does that leave Cardinal Sean Brady, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, who is facing mounting pressure to resign?