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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune _RELIGION Friday, Novembe , 2001 A23 Pope: Church’s Sex Abuse History Damaging LOS ANGELES TIMES ROME— PopeJohnPaul II offered an apology Thursday for sexual abuse by clergy, sayingit has caus victims “great sufferin spiritual harm" and has dam: aged the church. The pontiff tucked his oneparagrayty “mea culpa” into a 120-pagt 5 to Catholics raised by their bishops in 1998. Meeting at the Vatican, the bishops had condemned Sexual obliged the victims to have abusewithinthe church andin society as a whole. said, adding that the church abortions. The reports covered wishes to “apologize unreserv edly to the victims for the pain John Paul's message also the United States, the Philip. pines, Ireland and Papua New quoting internal ports about sexual nuns and other women by priests and bishops. According to reports cited by the U.S.-based weekly last spri some priests and mis- 1. in response to the articles, acknowledged that sionaries forced nuns to have sex with them and, in sev church is a profound contra dictionofthe teaching and wit instances, committed rape and ness of Jesus Christ,” the pope followed aseries of articles by the National Catholi casesin 2 es, including the problem existed and said.an_ and disillusionment caused to them.” The church, he said, is seek ing “open and just procedures to respond to complaints in this < are and is committed to investigation was underway sionate and effective the victims, their fam Thursday's’ papal message went muchfurther Sexual abuse within the plaints ofsexual abuse. y Massimo Sambucetti’The AP Pope John PaulIl uses a cor mputer to send a special papal documentto bishops worldwidevia the Internet during an audiencein the Clementine hall at the Vatican on Thursday. Pontiff Offers Online Apology To Peoples of the South Pacific BYFFRANCESD MILI10 ‘THEASSOCIATED pardon for the church's past PRESS 4-4 VATICAN CITY — With a tap ona laptop, Pope John Paul II forthefirst time sent outhis official word overthe Internet, apologizing Thursday for missionary abuses against indigenous peoples of the South Pacific, Bishops andtheir flocks in a % a Oceania —Australia, New Zealand and scattered South Sea islands — had been hoping John Paul would comein per- son to deliver the message. But his doctors have been pressing him for years to slow down. Thepontiffshows symptoms of Parkinson's disease, including a hand tremorand slurred speech. Since hip surgery in 1994, he hashaddifficulty moving about. John Paulvisited Oceania in 1986, Butthis timehe decided to. use the Internet because Oceania’s diocesesare so far apart, the Vaticansaid. The bishopsof Oceania had been waiting for the pope's message since 1998, when they metwith him at the Vatican. John Paul has devoted much of his 23-year papacy to asking sins, including those against other Christians and Jews, and his latest document was also soul-searching. “The church expresses deep regret and asks forgiveness where her children have been or still are party to these wrongs,” John Paul wrote.. He noted that in 1998, Oceania’s ar itona Er} oe si bs Y Deed ibNoe bishops had“apologized unreservedly” forthe “shameful injustices done to indigenous peoples,” citing instances in which missionaries forcibly separated children from their parents to teach ‘them Catholicism. “The past cannot be undone, but honest recognitionof past injustices can lead to measures and attitudes which will help rectify the damaging effects for both the indigenous community and the widersociety,” John Paul wrote. Healso notedthat Oceania’s bishops have apologized for sexual abuse bysome clergy. Thepope expressed concern that not all womenin Oceania havea free say in getting married. 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