UNITED STATES
The Tablet (UK)
15 June 2017
‘The Holy Father has called us respectfully to acknowledge our own share in causing the pain that so many are still enduring,’ said Gregory
Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory said today (14 June) that the US Catholic bishops “can never say that we are sorry enough for the share that we have had in this tragedy of broken fidelity and trust” – the clergy sex abuse crisis.
He made the comments in the homily at an evening Mass said to commemorate a “Day of Prayer and Penance” for victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. The liturgy was celebrated at St Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis at the end of the first day of the bishops’ spring assembly.
“At this Mass, we bishops humbly and sincerely ask for the forgiveness of those who have been harmed, scandalised or dispirited by events that, even if they happened many years ago, remain ongoing sources of anguish for them and for those who love them,” he said.
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