They ask why Francis would praise U.S. bishops for a supposed "generous commitment to bring healing to victims." Pope Francis praised U.S. Catholic bishops for their response to the clergy sex abuse crisis Wednesday during an address in Washington -- comments that victims called “insulting” and “hurtful.”
The pope applauded what he said was bishops’ "generous commitment to bring healing to victims." And he praised them for courage in facing “difficult moments in the recent history of the church in this country without fear of self-criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-clergy-sex-abuse-survivors_5603221de4b0fde8b0d12e18
The pope applauded what he said was bishops’ "generous commitment to bring healing to victims." And he praised them for courage in facing “difficult moments in the recent history of the church in this country without fear of self-criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-clergy-sex-abuse-survivors_5603221de4b0fde8b0d12e18
