Pope's chaplain offers apologies for Good Friday quotation

"If I have unwittingly offended the feelings of Jews and victims of pedofiles, I want to express deep regret and offer my excuses," Pater Cantalamessa said through an Italian paper.
However, criticism is also coming from within the loyal ranks of the Church who believe that the Vatican's response has been too passive and is damaging the church's moral authority.

In the pope's Easter sunday address, he made no reference to the sexual abuse issue.
However, senior Catholics across Europe did use their Easter sermons in an unprecedented expression of apology for the way the church had dealt with paedophile priests and acknowledged the damage the scandal had caused to its moral authority. They asked congregations for their forgiveness and urged them not to abandon the church because of past sins.

Cardinal Sean Brady, the primate of Ireland, "I pledge to you that, from now on, my overriding concern will always be the safety and protection of everyone in the church - but especially children and all those who are vulnerable."
In Austria, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn apologised for the abuse at an emotional pre-Easter mass. "We confess our guilt to the many whom we have wronged as the church, and whom some of us have wronged very directly."