VATICAN CITY
The Huffington Post
September 20, 2018
By Carol Kuruvilla
“You can see the pain in his face, and I felt he was sincere,” Bono said of the pope during a meeting at the Vatican.
U2 musician Bono said he had a hard conversation with Pope Francis about the sexual abuse scandal that has been roiling the Irish singer’s homeland.
Francis was “aghast” about sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, Bono told reporters after a private meeting with the pontiff at the Vatican on Wednesday.
“I explained to him how it looks to some people that the abusers are being more protected than the victims,” Bono said, according to Reuters.
The singer said Francis appeared deeply troubled by this.
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