Published: December 21, 2018
Vatican speech comes after year of scandals that rocked Catholic hierarchy
Pope Francis has vowed that the Catholic church will “never again” cover up clerical sexual abuse and demanded that priests who had raped and abused children turn themselves in.
The pontiff dedicated his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican bureaucracy to the theme of abuse, after a year of revelations of sexual misconduct and cover-up that rocked his papacy and caused a crisis of confidence in the Catholic hierarchy.
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