by Signe Wilkinson/Philly.com/WPWG 2018ON MONDAY, Pope Francis spoke the plain truth about the Catholic Church’s record of sexual abuse. In a new letter released by the Vatican, the pope said the Church has failed to properly deal with its “crimes” against children, and decades of such sexual abuse must no longer be “covered up and perpetuated,” as The Washington Post’s Chico Harlan reports. Abandonment. Abdication. The pope spoke to the longtime cycle of criminal failure that he said finally demands a change in Church culture.

Source: Washington Post August 20, 2018 12:45 UTC