Since becoming pope in 2013, the Argentine pontiff has striven to tackle the decades-long sexual abuse scandals involving Catholic priests around the globe.
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Women are not permitted to be deacons in the Catholic Church, but that could soon change
Pope Francis has caused something of a storm by advocating a change to the Lord’s Prayer
The idea is that the 114 heads of bishops’ conferences will return home with clear ideas on how to spot and deal with abuse
The Vatican has already warned that in some countries the church is dragging its feet because of cultural difference over what constitutes child abuse
The Church has been hit by a series of child abuse scandals in recent years
In front of 45 000 supporters in the west of Ireland, the pope spoke of the ‘open wound’ of the Church’s sexual abuse scandal
The pope has admitted that the Church had ‘delayed’ in applying the necessary sanctions
‘Circling each other now, each fighter coming in for the obligatory mock charge’
The Vatican finance chief is fighting to clear his name over historic sexual offence allegations
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The Pope expressed that he had taken up the Rohingya cause in private in Myanmar, but a few days before, he chose not to publicly air their plight.
The November visit comes as unprecedented numbers of Rohingya flee into neighbouring Bangladesh because of increasing communal violence.
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