Too Little Too Late
Friday, March 26, 2010
It was a letter that was heard around the world. On Saturday March 20, Pope Benedict apologized on behalf of the Catholic Church for the mistreatment, physical and sexual abuse of children in Ireland. It stopped short of what victims and advocates had really hoped for, which was an acknowledgement that church policies and procedures protected pedophiles from prosecution and kept cases secret allowing more children to be victimized. Papal apologies have been few in the long history of the Vatican, but Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have been admitting more errors in the church in recent times.
