Pope Francis met today (January 16, 2018) with victims of sex abuse by priests in what Holy See spokesman Greg Burke described as a "strictly private" encounter following lunch in the Apostolic Nunciature in the Chilean capital of Santiago, according to the Crux Now website.
Burke would only say that it was a small number of people who told the pope of their suffering. He added that the pope "listened to them, and prayed and cried with them."
Francis, this morning, issued a heartfelt apology for abuse at the presidential palace of La Moneda.
The three outspoken victims of Father Fernando Karadima today criticized the presence in the papal Mass of the Bishop of Osorno, Juan Barros, whom they accuse of covering up Karadima's abuse -- charges he strongly denies.
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