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	Pope Orders Vatican Probe into Irish Church, Blasts Bishops, Takes No Vatican Blame for Abuse By Nicole Winfield, Victor L. Simpson Los Angeles Times March 20, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-church-abuse-pope,0,4489120.story VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI rebuked Irish bishops Saturday for "grave errors of judgment" in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered an investigation into the Irish church but did not mention any Vatican responsibility. In a letter to the Irish faithful read across Europe amid a growing, multination abuse scandal, the pope doled out no specific punishments to bishops blamed by victims, and Irish government-ordered investigations, for having covered up abuse of thousands of Irish children from the 1930s to the 1990s. Ireland's main group of clerical-abuse victims, One in Four, said it was deeply disappointed by the letter because it failed to lay blame with the Vatican for what it called a "deliberate policy of the Catholic Church at the highest levels to protect sex offenders, thereby endangering children."
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