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Pope Francis met Tuesday with a group of clerical sexual abuse victims from the French diocese of Nantes, a public appointment Francis kept despite a lingering bacterial infection that is causing inflammation of the lungs.
Emerging as Gloria Branciani, she openly wanted to protest church policies that put the alleged victims in more pain instead of healing.
The national examination of conscience now underway seems destined to have consequences for the issue of the treatment of women across the board, including by the Catholic Church and its leadership in the Vatican.
Francis “limits himself to generic phrases on anti-Semitism, refusing to align the Catholic Church in an unequivocal way against anti-Semitism in all the forms with which it’s presenting itself,” said Lucetta Scaraffia.
One recurrent feature of the Francis papacy has been the occasional mystery – what the Italians would call a giallo, meaning “yellow,” after the color of paper on which detective stories here used to be printed – about what the pope actually said.