It must be said bluntly: Rather than protecting their victims, Pope Francis is protecting Catholic priests who have been accused of sexual abuse.
The Pope Is Turning a Blind Eye to Abuse

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It must be said bluntly: Rather than protecting their victims, Pope Francis is protecting Catholic priests who have been accused of sexual abuse.
“I was abused when I was in school,” Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean journalist, told me in a recent interview.
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