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Eun Kyung Kim
Pope Francis’s comments on the clergy sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the church for decades, focusing on Catholic leaders rather than victims caught in the crisis, was not a misstep, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Thursday.
The pope directly addressed the sex scandal during his speech Wednesday to U.S. Bishops in Washington, praising bishops for their “courage” and “generous commitment to bring healing to victims — in the knowledge that in healing we too are healed.”
While the speech drew criticism from advocates who argued it should have focused more on the victims, Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, described the pope’s speech as “beautiful” and said it set the right tone.
“He spoke about the courage, he spoke about the ongoing sorrow and most importantly, he spoke about the fact that we can never drop our vigilance,” said Dolan, the former president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. “We’ve always got to be as vigorous as we are now.”
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