“I hope and pray, and anticipate, that he will handle the issue appropriately here .”

- George Pell, Australia’s Cardinal, on call for Pope Benedict XVI to apologize to Australian victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests

 

“...every state has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights...

...it is indifference or failure to intervene that do the real damage.”

- Pope Benedict XVI, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, April 18, 2008