The Catholic Church didn't
do enough to stop clerical sex abuse of children, Pope Francis
told his weekly general audience on Wednesday.
Recalling his weekend trip to Ireland, the pope said "as well
as the great joy, it also had to take on board the pain and
bitterness for suffering caused in that country by various forms
of abuse, also by members of the Church, and by the fact that
the Church authorities in the past did not succeed in tackling
these crimes in an adequate way".
In Ireland the pope said the Church had failed the victims of
sex abuse.
Divorce is trendy but it is not an ideal for the family,
Francis also said Wednesday.
"It's a fashion, we read in magazines: he or she has
divorced...please this is a bad thing, I respect all but the
ideal is not divorce, separation, the destruction of families,"
he said at his weekly general audience.
"The ideal is a united family," Francis said in recalling
his visit to Ireland for the World Meting of Families.
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