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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap Pope shuns paedophilia scandal as Christians mark Easter AFP - Monday, April 5 Send IM Story Print VIDEO Pope Benedict XVI marked Good Friday, the Christian world's most solemn day, with the Roman Catholic Church under a dark cloud battling paedophile priest scandals. Duration:01:24 VATICAN CITY (AFP) - – Pope Benedict XVI kept mum on paedophile priest scandals rocking the Roman Catholic Church during his Easter mass Sunday as Christians across the world marked the resurrection of Christ. While condemning persecution and lamenting the "suffering" of Christian minorities in Iraq and Pakistan, Benedict failed to mention any abuse by the Church's priests. Rallying around the embattled head of the Roman Catholic Church in a rain-drenched St Peter's Square, the dean of the College of Cardinals told the pope in an unusual greeting: "The people of God are with you and do not allow themselves to be impressed by the idle chatter of the moment." Cardinal Angelo Sodano was reprising the same phrase the pope used a week ago when he urged Christians "not be intimidated by the idle chatter of prevailing opinions". In Paris, the archbishop of the city and head of the Catholic Church in France, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, said there was a "smear campaign aimed at the pope" over the paedophile priest scandal. It was Benedict, then known as Cardinal Ratzinger, who "as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, encouraged bishops to take action against paedophilia by systematically informing Rome of such cases," he told Le Parisien newspaper. However the top bishops in both Belgium and Germany issued forthright condemnations of the Church's role in covering up for predator priests. Belgium's Andre Joseph Leonard, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel, said in his Easter homily that the Church had mismanaged the crisis "with a guilty silence". Germany's top archbishop, Robert Zollitsch, for his part, said: "Today particularly we must set out together and examine inconceivable events, awful crimes, the Church's dark aspects as well as our shadowy sides." The scandals have cast a pall over Easter, the most joyous day in the Christian calendar, commemorating the day when Jesus Christ is believed to have been resurrected. In his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message the pope said humankind needed "a spiritual and moral conversion... to emerge from a profound crisis, one which requires deep change, beginning with consciences." Benedict called for an end to conflicts in Africa, notably in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea and Nigeria, and condemned "a dangerous resurgence of crimes linked to drug trafficking" in Latin America and the Caribbean. He also offered solace to the people of Haiti and Chile following the massive earthquakes in their countries. As tradition dictates, Benedict ended with greetings in 65 languages including Mongolian, Icelandic, and Aramaic, the language of Jesus still spoken in parts of the Middle East and Turkey. In Britain and Ireland Catholic and Anglican leaders meanwhile tried to heal the wounds in their Easter sermons following a rift between the churches over the Irish clerical child abuse scandal. Churchmen on both sides of the Irish Sea spoke of the turmoil in the Irish Catholic Church caused by paedophile priests and attempts to cover up their behaviour. But they also reflected on comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the leader of the world's Anglicans, who said the Catholic Church was "losing all credibility" in Ireland over the scandal. Related article: Anglican leader regrets Irish Catholics comments. Related article: Anglican leader regrets Irish Catholics comments. His first intervention on the subject -- for which he later expressed his "deep sorrow and regret" -- sparked an outcry from Anglican and Catholic clergy alike in both Britain and Ireland. In Jerusalem, thousands of Christian pilgrims streamed into the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Easter at the traditional site of Jesus's crucifixion and burial. Incense filled the air as Western and Orthodox pilgrims packed into the labyrinthine maze of chapels and crypts lit by thousands of candles as services were held at the grotto where Jesus is believed to have risen from the dead. The centuries-old church is shared uneasily by six denominations of Jesus Christ's followers -- Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Egyptian Copts, Syrian Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox. The crisis over Catholic predator priests took a new twist on Friday when the pope's personal preacher evoked a parallel between attacks on the pontiff and anti-Semitism. Jewish groups and those representing victims of abuse by Catholic priests condemned Father Raniero Cantalamessa for quoting the comments, which he said were made in a letter from a Jewish friend, in his Good Friday sermon. Cantalamessa issued an apology on Sunday, telling the Italian daily Corriere della Sera: "If I inadvertently hurt the feelings of Jews and paedophilia victims, I sincerely regret it and I apologise." 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