BLACKPOOL (CORK, IRELAND)
Irish Examiner
May 24, 2018
As well as being a likeable and accessible Church leader, Pope Francis exhibits all the characteristics of an exemplary human being.
Unlike Benedict, his immediate predecessor, Francis comes across as warm, gracious and truly humble, with a capacity for empathy than not even John Paul II displayed.
Yet his papacy continues to be haunted by clerical sex abuse scandals, largely because he is still unable to grasp the enormity of the problem.
He has yet to respond in any meaningful way to the criminal conviction in Australia of the archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, the most senior Catholic in the world to be found guilty of concealing child sex abuse.
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