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	Bishops Urged to Show Remorse Press Association (Ireland) July 19, 2008 http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_hl-uDMkfbid6H25tfhn696DICw Catholic bishops and priests have been urged to demonstrate true remorse for clerical child sex abuse after Pope Benedict publicly apologised to victims in Australia. Ireland's One-in-Four support group welcomed the Pope's strong apology but warned previous words had not been matched by actions in the church's hierarchy. One-in-Four, which has worked with hundreds of those who have suffered, said victims found it hard to accept that the Pope, and the clergy, shared in their suffering. "The difficulty in terms of these apologies is when they are not demonstrated," Deirdre Fitzpatrick, the charity's advocacy director, said. "In our experience some people may receive it in a positive light but many, as was the case when the Pope made his apology in America, were deeply upset."
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