Sexual abuse by priests causes 'sadness and shame' - Pope

Sexual abuse scandals rocking the Roman Catholic church cause ‘‘a deep sense of sadness and shame’’, Pope John Paul said today.

But in his first speech to the public on the matter this year, the Pope told an estimated 800,000 people at a soggy, muddy World Youth Day Mass in Toronto, Canada, that young believers should not let the actions of a few sway their devotion.