By Nick Squires in Rome and Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent 1148AM GMT twenty March 2010
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Link to this videoIn the initial open request ever released by the Vatican on the theme of sex abuse, the Pope pronounced "You have suffered grievously and I am indeed sorry.
"I know that zero can remove the wrong you have endured. Your certitude has been tricked and your grace violated.
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Decades of sex abuse by priests and alternative preaching had cracked conviction in the church, the German-born Pope pronounced in a seven-page minute due to be review out in churches opposite Ireland on Sunday.
"I know a small of you find it formidable even to come in the doors of a church after all that has occurred."
The Pope, whose former archdioscese in Munich has additionally been held up in the scandal, pronounced he common in the "dismay and clarity of betrayal" of most Catholics.
He pronounced "Serious sins committed opposite overpowered children" had non-stop up a "grievous wound".
The minute was addressed privately to Irish Catholics and done no discuss of alternative countries that have been swept up in the liaison in the last dual months.
In the past year, cases of abuse have emerged from around the world, with priests in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico and even in the Pope"s former parish in Germany being indicted of mistreating children.
The Pope did not, as victims" abuse organisation in Ireland have called for, have it transparent that priests or bishops who sense of sex abuse cases should inform them to police.
He pronounced decades of cover-ups by the Church were due to "a unnoticed regard for the repute of the Church and the deterrence of scandal."
He pronounced he had met victims of sex abuse from assorted countries in the past and was rebuilt to do so again.
He cursed bishops who had colluded in the dissimulation of sex abuse cases, but usually in the vaguest terms, observant that "grave errors of settlement were done and failures of care occurred".
He voiced that he would send a organisation of Vatican officials, well known as an Apostolic Visitation, to sure dioceses in Ireland in the nearby future.
He called for "concrete initiatives" to residence the situation, but they amounted to small some-more than prayers, fastings and Bible readings.
The minute was met with beating by survivors of abuse in Ireland.
"We feel the minute falls far short of addressing the concerns of the victims," pronounced Maeve Lewis, senior manager executive of victims organisation One in Four.
She pronounced the pope"s minute focused as well narrowly on lower-ranked Irish priests but recognising the shortcoming of the Vatican.
The minute follows calls from heading Catholic total for the Pope to accept shortcoming for the drawn out cover of sex abuse cases that has rocked the Church over new weeks.
Hundreds of victims from around the universe have come brazen over new weeks with stories that date behind decades and had formerly left unreported.
Pope Benedict has been criticised for presiding over a enlightenment of privacy in his time as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the Vatican dialect that deals with questioning allegations done opposite priests.
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the German Justice minister, blamed the Pope for enlivening a "wall of silence" over sex abuse.
In 2001, Pope Benedict, afterwards Cardinal Ratzinger, sealed an central Vatican request revelation bishops to keep tip the sum of ecclesiastic contravention that they reported to Rome.
The predicament has deepened in new weeks as hundreds some-more victims have come forward.
Cardinal Sean Brady, the Primate of all Ireland, has pronounced that he will cruise his own on all sides following a array of deleterious revelations.
"Honesty final that Joseph Ratzinger himself, the man who for decades has been predominantly obliged for the worldwide cover-up, at last clarify his own mea culpa," pronounced the Rev Hans Kung, the anarchist Swiss theologian.
