The Pope promised to rebuff critics of the church

Pope during a solemn service at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican promised to rebuff critics of the church.
During the Mass on Palm Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his hope that “faith will give him strength to reflect the pathetic rumors.” It is assumed that the “rumors” the pontiff understands the charges against the Vatican in the concealment of sexual crimes of Catholic priests.

On March 24 the newspaper The New York Times published an article, whose authors claimed that Pope Benedict XVI, while still a cardinal and named after Joseph Ratzinger, who personally ordered to stop the trial of a priest Lawrence Murphy, who was accused of corrupting the 200 boys. March 25 The Vatican formally denied these allegations.

Prior to that, the Vatican is also accused of concealing such crimes in Germany and Ireland.

During the Mass on March 28 Pope Benedict XVI said that prosecutors will not be intimidated.However, directly to the topic of sexual scandal, Papa was not addressed, focusing on the issue of peace in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, the same day near Westminster Cathedral in London, the chief of the Catholic Church of Great Britain, the demonstration of believers, demanding the resignation of the pontiff in connection with allegations of silence about the crimes of the clergy.