VATICAN CITY
Reuters

(Reuters) – Pope Francis on Friday asked for forgiveness for priests who molested children in some of his strongest words ever on the Roman Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis.

“I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil which some priests, quite a few in number, obviously not compared to the number of all the priests, to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children,” he told members of a children’s’ rights group according to Vatican Radio.