Meeting Called Unprecedented Pope Brings His Guests to Tears


	Meeting Called Unprecedented Pope Brings His Guests to Tears

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/26ee3d39-d142-4215-ae79-8a06d3c895df/D75D3109-D1A4-4FB4-8A31-EE855F271F0E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/at-un-pope-stresses-human-rights/20080415092409990001" href="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/at-un-pope-stresses-human-rights/20080415092409990001" style="font-size: 11px;">news.aol.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/at-un-pope-stresses-human-rights/20080415092409990001"><DIV>On Thursday, the pope prayed with tearful victims of clergy sex abuse in a chapel, an extraordinary and likely unprecedented gesture from a pontiff who has made atoning for the great shame of the U.S. church the cornerstone of his first papal trip to America.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/at-un-pope-stresses-human-rights/20080415092409990001"><DIV>The Rev. Federico Lombardi, a papal spokesman, said that Benedict and Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley met with a group of five or six clergy sex abuse victims for about 25 minutes, offering them encouragement and hope.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/at-un-pope-stresses-human-rights/20080415092409990001"><DIV>"They prayed together. Also, each of them had their own individual time with the Holy Father," Lombardi said. "Some were in tears."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/at-un-pope-stresses-human-rights/20080415092409990001"><DIV>Bernie McDaid, one of the victims, said in an interview with CNN 
that he told the pope he was an altar boy when he was abused and 
"it wasn't just sexual abuse, it was spiritual abuse. And I want 
you to know that. And then I told him that he has a cancer growing 
in his ministry, and needs to do something about it. And I hope he 
hears me ... and he nodded."</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D75D3109-D1A4-4FB4-8A31-EE855F271F0E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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