In an unprecedented letter released Monday,Pope Francis acknowledged “with shame and repentance” the Catholic Church’s decades-long failure to engage action over the “atrocities” committed by priests against children, and demanded accountability from future leaders.“We showed no care for the exiguous ones; we abandoned them, and ” he wrote in his 2000-word letter published in full by the Vatican News.
In the letter addressed to “the people of God,” Francis asked his fellow Catholics’ aid in uprooting “this culture of death.”“We have realized that these wounds never disappear and that they require us forcefully to condemn these atrocities and join forces in uprooting this culture of death,” he further wrote.
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