On the last day of his trip to the U.S. Pope Francis finally met with victims of clergy sexual abuse. It took visits across 15 countries and
the last day of his trip to the U.S. before a traveling Pope Francis
met with survivors of sexual abuse by the clergy, calling them “true
heralds of mercy.”
“God weeps for the sexual abuse
of children,” Francis said in Philadelphia, after meeting with hundreds
of bishops and seminarians as well as privately with victims of clergy
sexual abuse. “I am overwhelmed by the shame that people who were in
charge of caring for those young ones raped them and caused them great
damages.”
