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Pope Benedict faulted over sex abuse claims: New report is just one chapter in his – and Catholic Church's – fraught record
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01 June 2018, Vatican, Vatican City: Pope Francis greets Markus Soeder of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Premier of Bavaria, at the Vatican. Soeder is invited in private audience to Pope Francis
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