More shocking to me is that he is trying to convince the world he was shocked. Unless he meant when he heard about it when he was a kid or a teenager, that would make more sense.
Probably go over better with a lot of people if he dropped the 'shock' card and instead told everyone what they were actually going to do about it. A lot of people's lives have been damaged or destroyed form these sex abuses, it's appalling that he's trying to convince us that was shocked to find out about it.
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"These revelations were for me a shock and a great sadness. It is difficult to understand how this perversion of the priestly ministry was possible," he told reporters aboard his plane to Scotland. "How a man who has done this and said this can fall into this perversion is difficult to understand."
He added, "It is also a great sadness that the authorities of the church were not sufficiently vigilant and insufficiently quick and decisive in taking the necessary measures."
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"It's disingenuous to say church officials have been slow and insufficiently vigilant in dealing with clergy sex crimes and cover ups. On the contrary, they've been prompt and vigilant, but in concealing, not preventing, these horrors," said Joelle Casteix of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
"How many times will we let the world's most powerful religious figure just talk about child sex crimes and cover-ups and not insist that he do something about child sex crimes and cover-ups?
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The pope used relatively strong language in a speech delivered after the meeting, reflecting on the "sobering lessons of the atheist extremism" of the 20th century.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe...ex.html?hpt=C1