Pope Francis compares child sex abuse to human sacrifice as he vows to confront clergy abusers ‘with the wrath of God’ at extraordinary summit on paedophilia in the Catholic Church
Pope Francis vowed to confront sex abusers with the ‘wrath of God’ in a summitt
The Jesuit pope likened the sick actions of clergy sex abusers to human sacrifice
He also pledged to end church cover-ups by superiors and prioritise victims
He made remarks at the end of Mass before bishops and religious superiors
By BRENDAN MCFADDEN
DAILYMAIL.COM
24 February 2019
Pope Francis has vowed to confront clergy sex abusers with ‘the wrath of God’ and compared their actions to human sacrafice.
He made the remarks during a mass in the Vatican City to conclude his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse.
Francis also pledged to end the cover-ups by their superiors and prioritise victims of this ‘brazen, aggressive and destructive evil’.
The Guardian reported Pope Francis, concluded mass by comparing the abuse of children to ‘human sacrifice’.
He said: ‘Our work has made us realise once again that the gravity of the scourge of the sexual abuse of minors is, and historically has been, a widespread phenomenon in all cultures and societies.
‘I am reminded of the cruel religious practice, once widespread in certain cultures, of sacrificing human beings – frequently children – in pagan rites.’
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