**Pope Benedict XVI has said the Catholic Church needs to “do penance” for its sins, an apparent reference to the recent child sexual abuse scandal.**He said Catholics were “under attack from the world which talks to us of our sins” and should see the necessity “to recognise what is wrong in our lives”.
A series of allegations of abuse by priests has put pressure on the Church.
On Monday, a senior cardinal provoked outrage by linking homosexuality with paedophilia in the abuse scandal.
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