CANADA
Sunday Edition, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
September 9, 2018
[AUDIO]
Things were supposed to be different under Pope Francis.
Under the conservative reigns of his predecessors — John Paul II and Benedict XVI — the Roman Catholic Church resisted the tug of modernity.
It tuned out calls for reform in the face of ever-widening allegations and revelations of sexual abuse by priests and coverups by bishops.
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