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From an interview with The Daily Caller:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump expressed sadness over the ongoing sexual abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church and tacitly defended the Pope\u2019s handling of the crisis, in an exclusive Oval Office interview with The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so sad to watch,\u201d Trump said when asked for his thoughts on the issue, lamenting \u201cthe numbers, the length of time, you know, going back 70 years, I think it\u2019s having a really negative impact on the Catholic Church. \u2026 \u201cTo me it\u2019s one of the sadder stories \u2019cause I respect so much the Catholic Church. And to me it\u2019s a very sad story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sexual abuse scandal arose in recent weeks after the release of a Pennsylvania grand jury\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0detailing decades of abuse within the state over the previous decades. The report implicated dozens of priests in sexual abuse and the highest levels of Church leadership in the U.S. in covering up these abuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest.<\/a><\/strong> The president added,\u00a0 \u201cThe Pope is handling it, I guess the best anyone can handle it. How is he going to handle it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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