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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Speaking to the press enroute to Portugal yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI said the Church has always suffered from problems of its own making, but “today we see it in a truly terrifying way” in priest sex abuse scandals.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer The Vatican has released Pope Benedict XVI's new encyclical, “Caritas in veritate” (Charity in Truth), in which the Holy Father forcefully maintains the link between life ethics and social ethics.

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