Vatican cries some moar

A Jewish group and victims of Catholic clergy abuse have expressed alarm over a Vatican official who they said hurled a provocative insult by equating the church paedophilia scandal with anti-Semitism.

In a Friday service, Vatican preacher Father Raniero Cantalamessa read aloud a letter from a "Jewish friend" who wrote that the "collective blame" involving stereotyping and transfer of personal responsibility to the church over the sex scandal reminded him of the most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.

Yeah, right. Maybe we should stand back and say nothing about the church covering up the abuse. Not.

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