Pope Francis is to meet with victims of child sexual abuse by priests and their relatives during a visit to Mexico in February, Vatican website Il Sismografo said Thursday.
The meeting was confirmed by the archbishop of San Luis
Potosí, Monsignor Jesus Carlos Cabrero Romero.
However, exact details have not been released and every
effort will be made to keep the meeting as private as possible.
The pope will be in Mexico February 12-18.
Francis met with victims of pedophile priests in
Philadelphia in September during a visit to Cuba and then the
United States.
He has made ridding the Church of the scourge of child sex
abuse and asking for forgiveness for past crimes a central part
of his papacy.
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