VATICAN CITY
Agence France-Presse
October 29, 2018
By Catherine Marciano, Ella Ide
Pope Francis has vowed to end clerical sexual abuse, but bishops from Asia and Africa have shown a mixed response to a scandal some have termed a “Western problem”.
Church leaders from around the world attended the closing mass yesterday of a month-long meeting, or synod, which many had hoped would take the global struggle against paedophile priests up a notch.
As the talks began, Francis warned again that abuse and cover ups would not be tolerated.
But as US Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich told the press, priestly sexual abuse was “not on the front burner of all countries”.
“The resistance of some bishops” to discuss a crisis which has hit countries from Germany to America and Chile limited talk time at the synod, US Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput told the Catholic News Service agency.
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