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August 20, 2018 01:44 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ZtOGF4Ztlhs/pope-francis-apologizes-for-ch.html
Pope Francis apologizes for church child abuse, vows to clean house
In an "unprecedented" letter to the the laity, Pope Francis described priestly child abuse as an atrocity and the Catholic Church's protection of abusers as complicity.
With shame and repentance, we acknowledge as an ecclesial community that we were not where we should have been, that we did not act in a timely manner, realizing the magnitude and the gravity of the damage done to so many lives. We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them.
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