Pope comes to US to talk about sex scandal

Pope Benedict XVI arrived at Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday. He is here for a six day visit after flying with reporters in the aircraft with him. He told the reporters that he was "deeply ashamed of the Roman Catholic Church's child abuse scandal." The pope is 81 years old and was met by President Bush and his family to welcome his stay in America. The pope is here to speak in the UN General Assembly in New York and he is doing a mass in Yankee Stadium. This will be the pope's first visit to the US. "The pope began his visit by addressing an issue that has wounded the Catholic Church in the United States, telling reporters on his aircraft that the sexual abuse of children has caused 'great suffering' for the church and 'me personally.' The scandal has produced thousands of sexual abuse victims and about 5000 accused priests since it erupted in 2002 and has cost the church more than $2 billion in settlements." The church officials now are training their ppriests in a way they know that they are not going to abuse children. Pope Benedict had done very little publicity in talking about this issue. Advocates for victims have said that the church has done or failed to call the bishops who allowed abusive priest to remain at ministry. "Peter Isely, a national board member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday that he was glad to hear the pope acknowledge the sexual abuse problem more clearly than before, but that words alone are not enough. " The problem is if you don't start reprimanding and sanctioning bishops that know about sex crimes then there is not much being done about this situation. The rest of the article talks about how and what the pope's next actions are. If you are interested in reading this article go to Pope.
The article is good and is effective crisis management. It talks about the history of the Pope and what has happened in the history of the scandal. The article is a great news release because it keeps the audience aware of the problem and other views about the situation at hand. I hope that the Roman Catholic Church does something about this scandal and they get rid of the bishops that know about child abuse. The article is very effective because people want to know what the pope is going to do and what he hasn't done yet. To analyze the article I think the Pope has done a bad job of trying to fix this horrible problem. He has done little about issuing and getting rid of the bishops that know about which priest had acting so harshly towards children. I feel like he could of handle this a little bit sooner, now he has a big mess to clean up and people are not happy about it at all.