Pope Francis addresses the International Pilgrimage of the Ministrants last month in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

The pontiff's comments were in a letter penned nearly a week after a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed decades of alleged child abuse and cover-ups. "We abandoned them," Francis wrote.

From the article: Pope Francis on Clergy Sex Abuse: ‘We Showed No Care for The Little Ones’

Pope Francis addresses the International Pilgrimage of the Ministrants last month in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

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