BOSTON (MA)
WHDH
August 28, 2018
By John Cuoco
Cardinal Sean O’Malley will meet with Boston-area priests Tuesday to discuss the re-emerging international scandal of child sex abuse in the church and reports detailing decades of apparent cover-ups.
The meeting is set to take place at St. Julia’s Catholic Church in Weston, where protesters are expected to gather.
This comes after Pope Francis visited Ireland over the weekend and addressed the crisis.
“We ask forgiveness for the times that, as a church, we did not show the survivors of whatever kind of abuse compassion,” he said.
Former Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has since called for the Pope’s resignation, saying he told Pope Francis about sexual abuse allegations made against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and he did nothing about it.
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