In this morning's Irish Times:

A leading cardinal, addressing Pope Benedict at the start of an Easter Sunday ceremony, said the Church would not be influenced by what he called "petty gossip" about sexual abuse of children by priests.

"Holy Father, the people of God are with you and will not let themselves be influenced by the petty gossip of the moment, by the trials that sometimes assail the community of believers."

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0404/breaking1.html


He's worried about the trials that assail the "believers". Not those suffered by the victims. It assails belief, all right.