ESTONIA
Business Insider
September 26, 2018
By Kelly McLaughlin
– Pope Francis told reporters in Tallinn, Estonia, that everyone covered up sex abuse scandals in the past.
– He suggested that it’s unfair to apply modern standards to the Catholic Church’s cover up.
– His comments come amid Catholic Church sex abuse scandals worldwide, with the most recent revealing at least 3,677 children had been abused by priests in Germany between 1946 and 2014.
Pope Francis says that it’s unfair to apply modern standards to the Catholic Church’s sex abuse cover up.
Speaking to reporters in Tallinn, Estonia, on Tuesday, the pope suggested that everyone covered up crimes in the past, and that the Catholic Church shouldn’t be singled out, the Associated Press reported.
He said he was not excusing the church’s actions but said it was unfair to judge the cover up by today’s standards, comparing it to judging the conversion of indigenous people in the colonial era or the past use of the death penalty.
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