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KDKA

August 20, 2018

Victims of child sex abuse in Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses are speaking out in the wake of a grand jury report.

Today brought the first public acknowledgement from Pope Francis that the Catholic Church failed to act over sexual abuse by priests.

In a letter released by the Vatican, Pope Francis writes, “Looking back to the past, no effort to beg, pardon and to seek to repair the harm done, will ever be sufficient. Looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated.”