Pope tells sex-abuse priests: ‘Turn yourselves in’
NICOLE WINFIELD | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 8:27 a.m. CST Dec. 21, 2018
Pope Francis vows clergy sex abuse ‘must never happen again’
Pope Francis vowed the Catholic Church will never cover up clergy sex abuse and demanded priests who have raped and molested children to turn themselves in.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis vowed Friday that the Catholic Church will “never again” cover up clergy sex abuse and demanded that priests who have raped and molested children turn themselves in.
Francis dedicated his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican bureaucracy to abuse, evidence that a year of devastating revelations of sexual misconduct and cover-up has shaken his papacy and caused a crisis of confidence in the Catholic hierarchy.
Francis acknowledged that the church in the past had failed to treat the problem seriously . . .
