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# Priest abuse victims protest at Vatican
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## Victims of sex abuse by priests across the world took their calls for
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justice to Pope Benedict XVI's door on Sunday, yelling "Shame!" at a Vatican
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official in an angry protest.
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![Vatican protest][1]
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A member of Survivors Voice Inc. tries to speaks with Vatican's spokesman
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Father Federico Lombardi during a rally next to the Vatican Photo: REUTERS
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12:00AM GMT 01 Nov 2010
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Around 60 protesters - victims of abuse and their families - gathered near St.
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Peter's Basilica with banners and torches and shouted "Shame on you!" at
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Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's spokesman, when he appeared.
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Victims from Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States held up
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banners saying "The Pope protects paedophile priests," "Church without abuse"
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and "Pope on trial."
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"Enough is enough," said Bernie McDaid, victim and co-founder of Survivor's
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Voice, the US group behind the protest.
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"Somewhere tonight in Africa a missionary is having his way with a child,
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taking his body for pleasure and robbing his soul, and nothing will be done to
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stop the perpetrator," he said.
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The victims had hoped to lead a candlelit vigil to the edge of St Peter's
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Square to leave personal messages for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
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## Related Articles
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enemies of the Pope][2]
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07 Apr 2010
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But the Vatican refused to give permission to enter the square and 25 police
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officers blocked the torch-bearing protesters from walking up the wide avenue
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that leads to the Basilica.
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In the end only Gary Bergeron, who co-founded the US group with Mr McDaid, and
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another victim managed to walk up to the Vatican, though they put out their
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torches before entering the square.
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"The continued acceptance of the systemic sexual abuse of children is nothing
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less than a crime against humanity," said Mr Bergeron.
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"This isn't an attack on faith or religion, it's about behaviour and ethics,"
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said Marco Lodo Rizzini, a spokesman for child victims of abuse from Italy's
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Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf, many of whom attended the
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demonstration.
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Sixty-seven deaf and speech-impaired children at the Catholic institute in the
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city of Verona were allegedly abused by priests and lay staff between the
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1950s and 1980s.
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"The Pope keeps saying child abuse is a crime, but he needs actually to take
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some concrete action," said Mr Lodo Rizzini.
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Claims of [clerical paedophilia have emerged from across Europe and the United
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States][3], with the Church accused of not acting quickly or firmly against
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priests involved and even covering up the problem.
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The Church is grappling with its worst crisis in years since the publication
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in November 2009 of a report revealing serial abuse of children by priests in
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Ireland and a subsequent cover-up, with similar cases unveiled in countries
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including Belgium and Germany.
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