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| [00:00.00] | Pope Benedict's personal preacher |
| [00:02.05] | has compared criticism of the Pope |
| [00:03.93] | over the way the Church has dealt with sex abuse allegations |
| [00:06.38] | to what he called the "collective violence" suffered by the Jews. |
| [00:09.84] | In his Good Friday sermon in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, |
| [00:13.40] | Father Raniero Cantalamessa |
| [00:15.38] | quoted from a letter from his Jewish friend |
| [00:17.41] | who had said the accusations reminded him |
| [00:19.61] | of the "most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism". |
| [00:22.05] | Here is our Rome correspondent Duncan Kennedy. |
| [00:24.65] | The comments were made in the presence |
| [00:26.48] | of Pope Benedict by one of his inner circle. |
| [00:29.27] | Whether the Pope knew about it in advance? |
| [00:31.41] | "We don't know. We don't know this sort of things". |
| [00:33.50] | Hard to imagine that |
| [00:34.77] | it wasn't raised beforehand with Pope Benedict |
| [00:37.93] | that these comments were going to be coming |
| [00:39.91] | and expressed the kind of opinion |
| [00:42.56] | that many, many of his inner circle, |
| [00:44.95] | many, many of his supporters |
| [00:46.22] | believe that the Pope is getting a hard time |
| [00:49.23] | because of all this allegation |
| [00:51.87] | and scandal about priestly sexual abuse. |
| [00:54.78] | But in no way in their view |
| [00:56.92] | is Pope Benedict involved what they say |
| [00:58.95] | is that he was not part of the cover-up; |
| [01:01.09] | he was part of the clean-up in all of this. |
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