Pope expresses ‘shame’ for Catholic Church’s inability to deal with French child sex abuse victims
Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his “shame” at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, laid bare in a devastating report this week.“I wish to express to the victims my sadness and pain for the trauma they have suffered. And also my shame, our shame, my shame for the inability of the Church for too long to put them at the centre of its concerns,” the pontiff said in his general audience.“I pray and we all pray together – to you Lord the glory, to us the shame. This is the…