What does that statement mean and entail? That no previous Pope has faced it? That previous Popes have avoided it?
It's the bishops who need to face the "sexual abuse crisis" because they're the ones who created it. The episcopacy needs to be cleaning up its own mess.
Church teaching on who may be admitted to the priesthood is clear; no homos. Americans in particular just thumbed their noses and laughed at this discipline and we've reaped the consequences. Now it's the Pope's responsibility to "face the sexual abuse crisis"??
The new Pope needs to read the riot act to the bishops because many still don't get it.
Precisely, and to the American Cardinals as well.
I might add, until the American Cardinals become less politically correct and finally start denying Holy Communion to the pro-abortion Catholics like Pelosi, Biden and outspoken notable others, none of them are worthy to fill the shoes of Saint Peter either.