The new head of the Belgian Catholic Church has pledged to focus on the victims of alleged sexual abuse in a first attempt to rebuild public trust. An independent body to investigate the alleged abuse found it had occurred in every diocese over decades.
 | Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WGBH's The World, 9/13/10. Clark Boyd reports from Brussels. |
Into The Frying Pan
Video: ITN 9/15/10.
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Britain on Thursday -- the first visit by a pope in nearly 30 years and the first papal state visit since King Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534. The trip comes at a low point in Catholic-Anglican ties and under the weight of the clerical sex abuse crisis, and the perspective is different when viewed from Rome.
 | Audio Embed: All Things Considered 9/15/10, Reporter: Sylvia Poggioli. |
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