17 May 2010

Show of support for Pope

12:25 pm on 17 May 2010

More than 100,00 Roman Catholics have converged on the Vatican in an organised show of support for Pope Benedict XVI as the church struggles to deal with worldwide cases of paedophile priests.

Pope Benedict thanked them repeatedly for coming to Rome.

However, the BBC reports he made no direct reference to hundreds of cases of clerical abuse that have recently come to light.