ROME
NPR (The Two-Way)
By Sasha Ingber
May 18, 2018
All 31 active bishops in Chile offered to resign Friday, following a meeting that Pope Francis called to examine the Chilean clergy’s failure to protect children from pedophiles.
The bishops started the conference by thanking the pope for his “brotherly correction” and the victims of sexual abuse for their bravery and perseverance in coming forward. Their statement was read aloud to the press in Spanish and Italian.
“We want to ask forgiveness for the pain we caused victims, the pope, the people of God and our country for the grave errors and omissions that we committed,” they said.
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