Posted on 01/18/2018 1:48:37 PM PST by buffyt
Pope Francis publicly expressed “pain and shame” on Tuesday over the rape and molestation of children by priests in Chile and later listened, prayed and cried at a private meeting with victims, Reuters reported.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the meeting took place in the Vatican embassy in Santiago.
“No one else was present. Only the pope and the victims,” the spokesman said. “This was so they could speak of their suffering to Pope Francis, who listened to them and prayed and cried with them.”
It was only the second time on his overseas trips that the pope has met victims of sexual abuse, although he has met some at the Vatican. The last meeting on a trip was in Philadelphia in 2015.
Fake news. Fake tears. Fake pope.
““No one else was present. Only the pope and the victims,” the spokesman said. “This was so they could speak of their suffering to Pope Francis, who listened to them and prayed and cried with them.””
Since popie doesn’t travel alone, one might wonder with what/whom his entourage was busy while he was with THESE victims.
OK, probably a good thing to do. But let him remember these victims the next time he goes poking his nose into other affairs and telling us how to live.
He’s probably going to be apologizing ad nauseum for Pinochet.
The praying and crying are no good unless they lead to action. Hope he is as active here as he is in promoting global warming junk science and leftist economics.
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