Pope urges watch against 'deviation'

Friday, September 6, 2002

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II said Thursday that men with "obvious signs of deviations" must be barred from becoming priests, alluding to the risk of further sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.

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