Church ‘insufficiently vigilant’ during abuse scandals

POPE BENEDICT criticised Catholic Church leaders yesterday as “insufficiently vigilant” during decades of sexual abuse of children, as he arrived in Britain to win over one of Europe’s most secular countries.

The German Pope arrived at a time when the Catholic Church is struggling with a global child sex abuse scandal.

In some of his clearest remarks on the scandal, he told reporters aboard the plane taking him to Scotland he was shocked by the revelations.