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USA Today
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Michele Chabin, USA TODAY May 26, 2014
JERUSALEM — Pope Francis said Monday he will meet with a group of sex abuse victims next month at the Vatican and declared “zero tolerance” for any member of the clergy who would violate a child.
Francis also said that three bishops are under investigation by the Vatican for abuse-related reasons, though it wasn’t clear if they were accused of committing abuse itself or of having covered it up.
The meeting with victims marks the first for this pope. He disclosed the plan in a press conference aboard the papal plane returning from a three-day trip to Jerusalem.
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