Pope admitted "I was part of the problem"

Pope admitted “I was part of the problem”

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

The Pope admitted he “was part of the problem,” to one of the three Chilean clergy abuse survivors he invited to visit him at the Vatican.

“I caused this, and I apologize to you,” he is reported to have said.

The survivors have urged Pope Francis to transform his apology for having discredited them into concrete action to end what they called the “epidemic” of sex abuse and cover-up in the Catholic Church. Read more

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