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VATICAN WASHES HANDS

ROME - From the Vatican's perspective, America's priest sex-abuse scandal has diminished, and all that remains is to regain the trust of the faithful and clear a backlog of cases that still await official review.

The scandal is not likely to play a big role when it comes to choosing Pope John Paul II's successor, said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Vatican expert and editor of the Catholic weekly magazine America.

"The abuse problem needs to be solved at home," he said. "It will not be solved at the Vatican. The Vatican did not move priests from parish to parish."

Thanks guys. I wish you had been willing to take responsibility for the mess you helped create. And to think these are the ones who will elect the new pope.

If they don't care about the American laity, why should the American laity care about them?

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!