How far will Pope Francis go in rooting out sexual abuse?
His own record comes under scrutiny as the Catholic church convenes a summit on the issue
“WE HEAR THE cry of the little ones asking for justice,” said Pope Francis on February 21st to 100 bishops from around the world and other leading members of the Catholic hierarchy who had gathered in the Vatican for a four-day meeting on clerical sex abuse. The conference is the most conspicuous effort yet to extirpate the cancer eating at the world’s biggest Christian church.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Praying about preying”
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