By lowering the age at which children made their first confession, Pius exposed children to priests in unsupervised situations of extraordinary privacy and intimacy. A significant minority of those confessors proved to be sexual abusers.
dailymail.co.ukPope called Pius turned confessional box into paradise for paedophiles'At my Catholic boarding school a jolly priest asked if I was ever tempted to
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