Pope Francis today expressed his personal shame at the scale of child abuse carried out by clergy in France’s Catholic Church that saw attacks on 330,000 children.
The pontiff told of his ‘sadness’ for the victims after a damning report found nuns used crucifixes to rape girls during decades of abuse which was covered up by a ‘veil of silence’.
The 2,500-page landmark report was released Tuesday after more than two years of investigations by an independent commission, in France’s