The Catholic News Service is reporting the following was said by Pope Benedict:
“Among the new things that we can discover today…… is that attacks on the pope and the church come not only from the outside, but the suffering of the church comes from inside the church, from sins that exist inside the church… This, too, we have always known, but today we see it in a really terrifying way, that the biggest persecution of the church doesn’t come from the enemies outside but is born from sin inside the church. And so the church has a profound need to learn penance, to accept purification, to learn on the one hand forgiveness but also the necessity of justice. And forgiveness does not substitute justice.”
See, http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1001965.htm to read the entire report.
