{"id":51,"date":"2010-04-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch-easter-sunday-edition.html"},"modified":"2010-04-05T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:30:00","slug":"pope-watch-easter-sunday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch-easter-sunday-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Watch: Random Apologies Made as Holy Week Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clergy sex abuse scandal didn&#8217;t elicit further statements of regret from Catholic Church leaders over the weekend, but two peripheral apologies did make headlines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Vatican&#8217;s struggle over its response to the scandal was compounded by the controversial Good Friday homily by Pope Benedict&#8217;s personal preacher, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/04\/02\/papal-preacher-suggests-scandal-coverage-is-anti-catholic-compa\/\">compared the pontiff&#8217;s recent&nbsp;suffering to the &#8220;collective violence&#8221; endured by the Jews <\/a>throughout history. Father Raniero Catalamessa&#8217;s unfortunate&nbsp;comparison outraged plenty of people, including both Holocaust and sex abuse survivors. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/04\/04\/1011450\/vatican-official-compares-attacks-on-church-to-anti-semitism#When:08:33:00Z\">He has since apologized<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Archbishop of Canterbury Roman Williams,&nbsp;the London-based head of the&nbsp;Anglican Communion (which includes the Episcopal Church),&nbsp;had told the BBC Saturday&nbsp;that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-04-03-anglican-church-abuse_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has lost its credibility<\/a>, due to its mishandling of the abuse crisis. (The comment was particularly newsworthy, given that Pope Benedict will making the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/03\/pope-watch-clergy-abuse-victims-respond-to-vatican-defense.html\">first official papal visit to<\/a> the United Kingdom later this year.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/archbishop.apologises.for.catholic.church.remarks\/25628.htm\">Williams has also since apologized<\/a>, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/apr\/05\/rowan-williams-catholic-abuse-scandal\">The Guardian <\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/anglican_communion\/rowan_williams_unnecessary_apo.html\">Episcopal Cafe&nbsp;considered this &#8220;unncecessary<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, the news continues about the cover-up for pedophile priests, now with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-04-03-church-abuse-vatican_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Associated Press story about two Arizona<\/a>&nbsp;cases. Check back for more on the AP story and other updates, and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clergy sex abuse scandal didn&#8217;t elicit further statements of regret from Catholic Church leaders over the weekend, but two peripheral apologies did make headlines: The Vatican&#8217;s struggle over its response to the scandal was compounded by the controversial Good Friday homily by Pope Benedict&#8217;s personal preacher, who compared the pontiff&#8217;s recent&nbsp;suffering to the &#8220;collective&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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