Vatican Releases Pope Francis’ “Letter to the People of God”
Pope vows accountability for sex abuse cover-ups but offers no new specifics Aug. 20, 2018, John Allen, Jr. In a forceful letter just ahead of his Aug. 25-26 trip to Ireland, and just after a blistering Pennsylvania Grand Jury report on sex abuse crimes and cover-ups in six dioceses, Pope Francis wrote Monday “no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up …