Pope Francis has made empathy for the downtrodden and the powerless a
hallmark of his papacy, but he has been less deft in dealing with the
Roman Catholic Church’s own most defenseless victims — children sexually
abused by clergy.
At the outset of his visit last fall to the United States, the pope spoke feelingly of the pain and suffering endured by American bishops who had withstood the ongoing clergy sex-abuse scandal. His words of sympathy for the actual victims of that abuse — those whose lives have been scarred and destroyed by priests — came on the final day of his journey and, to many survivors, seemed nearly an afterthought.
http://www.registercitizen.com/article/RC/20160607/NEWS/160609684
At the outset of his visit last fall to the United States, the pope spoke feelingly of the pain and suffering endured by American bishops who had withstood the ongoing clergy sex-abuse scandal. His words of sympathy for the actual victims of that abuse — those whose lives have been scarred and destroyed by priests — came on the final day of his journey and, to many survivors, seemed nearly an afterthought.
http://www.registercitizen.com/article/RC/20160607/NEWS/160609684