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