Pope Benedict XVI arrived Tuesday in the United States to a presidential handshake and enthusiastic cheering, a warm welcome that followed the pontiff’s candid admission hours earlier that he is “deeply ashamed” of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has rocked the American church. On his first papal trip to the U.S., Benedict gave hundreds of spectators a two-handed wave as he stepped off a specia…

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