04.16.08
Pope Benedict Vows to Fight Clergy Sex Abuse, Distinguishing Between ‘Homosexuality’ and ‘Pedophilia’
Pope Benedict XVI stepped onto U.S. soil at Andrews Air Force Base for the time as pontiff Tuesday, arriving to a presidential handshake and wild cheering only hours after he admitted that he is ”deeply ashamed” of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has devastated the American church
”I do not wish to talk at this moment about homosexuality, but about pedophilia, which is another thing,” he said.
While the pope and Bush differ on such major issues on the Iraq war, capital punishment and the U.S. embargo against Cuba, they do find common ground in opposing abortion, gay marriage and embryonic stem cell research.