From Rome, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that the pope "spoke of the scandals that have undermined his papacy - it started with his own mishandling of the scandal in Chile and ended with USA prosecutors uncovering decades of cover-ups in the American Catholic Church". His remarks capped a hard year for the Catholic church, which began with the pontiff's botched handling of a sexual abuse scandal in Chile and ended with USA state prosecutors uncovering decades of cover-up.
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