Pope Benedict XVI was said to have been reduced to tears as he expressed his "shame and sorrow" over the Catholic church's sex abuse scandal during a meeting with a group of victims in Malta.

The 83-year-old pontiff, who has struggled to contain the crisis in the church, made his strongest pledge to bring priests who have molested children to justice and better safeguard future generations from clerical abuse.

The pope met privately with eight of the 10 men who say they were sexually abused by Catholic priests while growing up in a church-run orphanage on the island in the 1980s and 1990s and who are testifying in court against three priests.

"He was deeply moved by their stories and expressed his shame and sorrow over what the victims and their families have suffered," the Vatican said. "He prayed with them and assured them that the church is doing, and will continue to do, all in its power to investigate allegations, to bring to justice those responsible for abuse and to implement effective measures designed to safeguard young people in the future."

Benedict also said he hoped all clerical abuse victims would "experience healing and reconciliation, enabling them to move forward with renewed hope".

The group's spokesman, Lawrence Grech said the pope had cried during the 20-minute meeting. "I saw the pope cry with emotion and I felt freed of a great weight," he said, adding that Benedict had blessed each of them. " I hadn't been to mass for a long time and I'd lost my faith, but now I feel a confirmed Catholic".

An unnamed victim was quoted in local newspaper the Times of Malta: "We now have peace in our hearts ... because the pope found time to meet us. We now look forward to the end of the court case, and the closure of this chapter."

There had been some doubt over whether the pope would meet the group during his 26-hour visit to Malta despite their repeated requests for an audience. Early on Sunday one of the victims said he had given up hope of seeing the pontiff, but that he had got dressed up "just in case".

The group was summoned to a last-minute meeting at the apostolic nunciature in Valletta as international pressure continued to mount on the church to take steps over recent scandals, including those in which Benedict has been accused of covering up before he became pope. Some observers noted the meeting fell short of an apology. In a mass in front of 40,000 people, Benedict made no reference to the scandals but urged Maltese priests to follow the example of the country's first native saint, Father George Preca, whom he described as "a priest of remarkable humility, goodness, meekness and generosity".

However, the Archbishop of Malta, Paul Cremona, called on the Catholic church to be "humble enough to recognize the failures and sins of its members".

The Maltese church recently announced that a special response team had received 84 reports of clerical abuse allegedly involving 45 priests since it was set up in 1999.

“And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” - St. Matthew 16:18 DRV

Please Pray for Pope Benedict.  He is Under Grave Attack by the Antichrist Forces From Without and Within the Church.

"My children, you will recognize the signs of your times. The evil has accelerated. Satan has poisoned many minds, even in the clergy. It is now the full responsibility of parents to be the leaders, the teachers of their children. Satan has poisoned the minds of many in the clergy and doctrines of demons are being introduced into My House.

     "My children, it is with great sorrow that We look upon the abominations being committed in My houses upon earth. Know now, O bishops, shepherds of My flock, that We look upon you and find you wanting.  You bring about a change, and for what? You were not satisfied with the rules, so now you make rules to suit your own basic carnal nature of man. And what are you doing, but you are reforming My House, and for what?

     "In arrogance and pride you have placed yourself above your God. Believe, and do you believe, O clergy? Shall you stand before Me and say that your teaching has been pure in My sight? I say unto you: I shall spit you out as vermin into the flames! Vipers upon earth you have become. I say unto you: Your days shall be counted in the few.
     "Many of My clergy are on the road to perdition and taking many trusting souls with them." - Jesus, July 25, 1977

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These messages came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

THE  MAJOR  OFFENSE
"The major offense being committed in your world is an offense far above any sin committed in such majority in the past. You have committed the great sin of heresy. You have opened the doors of your Eternal City, the home of your Vicar, to all manner of heretics and non-believers." - St. Michael, February 1, 1977 

EXCOMMUNICATE
"Pastors in the houses of your God, you must return from your wanderings and gather your straying sheep. Discipline must be returned. Holiness and piety must be returned. Heresy and heretics must be taken out of Rome! The power of excommunication must be used. You will cleanse the Eternal City now, or you will accept the sword!" - St. Michael, December 27, 1975 

INDOCTRINATED  IN  HERESY
"Your children must be protected from the evils that abound in your school systems in your country and most nations throughout the world. They are being taught immorality and a loss of faith in the supernatural and the knowledge of their God. All manner of heresy has been indoctrinated into their youthful minds. It is a diabolical plan of Lucifer." - Our Lady, June 18, 1979 

SPEAK  OUT
"Many homes shall be torn asunder by the fall of the children. Parents shall shed tears of anguish. Therefore, prevent this now while your children are at a young age. Give them a firm foundation of their faith. Be not afraid to speak out against heresy and abominations, even if you have to do this against your clergy. For many now have fallen in with the modernists, the socialists, the communists, and some the satanists. Therefore, My children, I make known to you the crisis that lies ahead." - Our Lady, June 18, 1979 

HERESY,  APOSTASY  ABOUND
"Because of the arrogance and pride of My clergy, many of Our sheep, Our children, are lost to the Kingdom of Heaven. Many mitres are destined for the abyss. Heresy and apostasy abounds upon earth." - Jesus, June 18, 1979 

MOURNFUL  HERESY
"Heresy, O mournful heresy! Pastors, this shall not be tolerated. You must not destroy Our young flowers, the children. You must nurture them with pure waters of faith. This faith must not be tainted by modernism and humanism. You have set upon the world a confusion of mind and a darkening of spirit." - Our Lady, November 20, 1975 

MUST  NOT  COMPROMISE
"You must not compromise your Faith. You cannot lower your standards and bring others into My Son's Church, for you bring in all manner of heresy and abominations. By your example did you gather Our sheep, and by your example now do you scatter them. I say, as your Mother: Turn back from your road, for you are on the way to perdition." - Our Lady, June 5, 1976 

HERESY  PREVAILS
"Each man shall be accountable for his own soul. You shall not allow heresy to prevail in My House! You shall not permit the corruption and destruction of the young souls with error, fallacy, and heresy! You shall not, in the name of technology and science, corrupt the teachings given to you by those who came before you, sent by the Eternal Father to enlighten you on the path and the way to your Kingdom, the Kingdom of your God in Heaven!" - Jesus, February 10, 1976 

HELL-HOLES  OF  HERESY
"Can you, O bishops, not spare but the little time to look into your seminaries? I say but one expression to you: they have become hell-holes of error and heresy! Clean out your seminaries, My bishops! My Son will lay upon you a heavy hand in penance! Is this what you want? Do you not have the courage of your convictions to stand by the truth of your Faith? Have you given yourselves to such foul sin, O bishops, in your personal lives that you do no longer recognize sin as being a way of life? Are you also condoning sin to become a way of life?" - Our Lady, October 2, 1976 

HERESY  IN  THE  CLASSROOMS
"And what are they teaching in the classrooms? Oh,  my sister, you must tell the world—all the children of earth, of the Eternal Father—that they are teaching heresy! Oh, that's untruth. Satan is deluding many and poisoning their minds. Heresy, O mournful heresy!" - St. Theresa, May 17, 1975 

LEGACY  OF  TRUTH
"I recognized, my child, the evils that were to fall upon the world. Search for the knowledge I have left to you. I, too, was enlightened by the Holy Spirit. Read well the legacy of truth* that I left to you. Modernism must be erased from your world!" - Pope St. Pius X, September 7, 1974

* Read especially the famous encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (The Doctrine of the Modernists) by Pope St. Pius X.  

MANY  REBEL
"Many clergy have given themselves over to pleasures of the flesh. Many have fallen into sin and heresy, and have cast aside the truth of their vocations. Many now rebel against their leader, their God-given leader, your Vicar. In matters of faith and morals, man must not change the God-given laws, coming from the Seat of Peter, and established through tradition upon earth through My Son's Church." - Our Lady, October 6, 1979

Directives from Heaven...

D1 - The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass  PDF
D85 - Tradition  PDF
D161 - The Great Apostasy PDF
D164 - Heresy PDF
D184 - Church of Man,  Part 1    PDF
D185 - Church of Man,  Part 2   PDF
D186 - Excommunication   PDF 

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