VATICAN CITY/GENEVA
Kansas City Star
January 16
BY ALBERT OTTI AND ALVISE ARMELLINI
dpa
GENEVA — Pope Francis on Thursday railed against the scandals that have plagued the Catholic Church in recent years, while United Nations experts grilled Vatican envoys about child sexual abuse by clergy.
“There are many scandals that I do not want to mention individually, but we all know about them,” Francis said while celebrating morning mass in the Santa Marta chapel, according to a transcript supplied by Vatican Radio.
Along with the revelations about pedophile priests, the Catholic Church has been rocked in recent years by allegations of infighting, mismanagement, graft and money laundering.
“The church’s shame! But did we feel shame for those scandals, for those setbacks of priests, bishops, lay people?” asked the pontiff.
In Geneva, a Vatican delegation appeared before the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to face the most intense public questioning to date about the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests and alleged coverups.
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