POPE FRANCIS SPEAKS OUT ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE..............

His Holiness Pope Francis spoke out unequivocally today making a personal  apology for the sexual abuse committed by priests and acknowledging the Church must be, "even stronger" in dealing with the perpetrators.  Pope Francis' statement follows his appointment last month of a Commission to oversee and  respond to increasing the Catholic Church's addressing of the problem, with members that include international advocates for abused victims and Boston Archbishop Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who has honestly and effectively with the child sexual abuse crisis he inherited in the Archdiocese of Boston Massachusetts, ground zero in the American sexual abuse scandal in the United States..............fr.tdp