Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that the Catholic Church must reflect on the failures in its message that allowed for the sexual abuse scandal and that it has to find a way to help heal victims and not ordain potential pedophiles.

The Vatican on Saturday called on both Catholics and Jews to stop piling “pressure” on Pope Benedict over whether he should or should not promote the sainthood of his controversial Nazi-era predecessor Pius XII. Pius, who reigned from 1939...