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Pope's popularity amongst Americans plummets following sex scandal: Poll | Only fifteen percent of Americans view Pope Benedict XVI in a positive light, while 24 percent see him negatively following the surfacing of sexual abuse cases linked to him, according to a new CBS News poll. A year ago, the Pope's
unfavorable rating was just four percent. The poll found that more than two in
three Americans say the Pope has done a bad job in handling charges of abuse by
priests, while just 13 percent say the Pope, who has been serving since April
2005, has done a good job on the issue. Among Catholics, the Pope's favorable
rating has fallen 13 points, from 40 percent in 2006 to 27 percent today, the
poll found. His unfavorable rating has increased ten points to 11 percent. And
the percentage of Catholics who are "undecided" about the pope has risen 21 points,
to 36 percent, the survey said. On Friday, it emerged that the Catholic Church
waited more than ten years to defrock a pedophile priest despite an Arizona bishop's
appeal to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would become Pope Benedict XVI, to remove
him from priesthood. |
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