sexual abuse scandal

Pope Francis silent on claim he ignored sexual abuse

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican envoy to the US, says he had told Francis of allegations against prominent US cardinal Theodore McCarrick in 2013, but rather than punish McCarrick, who was forced to resign last month, Francis lifted sanctions imposed on him by his predecessor pope Benedict XVI

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Pope Francis ‘begs for God’s forgiveness’ for sexual abuse scandal

In front of 45,000 supporters at the rain-soaked Knock shrine in the west of Ireland, the pope sought forgiveness over the "open wound" of the church's sexual abuse scandal and demanded "firm and decisive" measures to find "truth and justice"