POPE FRANCIS MEETS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS, PROMISES CHANGE
PHILADELPHIA >> Pope Francis met on Sunday morning at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary with three women and two men who had been victims of sexual abuse — at least some in the group were abused by clergy members.
“We are gathered here in Philadelphia to celebrate God’s gift of family life. Within our family of faith and our human families, the sins and crimes of sexual abuse of children must no longer be held in secret and in shame,” the Pope said in his address to the victims.