Many words, little action: three
years after Pope Francis's election, victims of priest sex abuse are
bitter and disappointed, accusing the Church of having failed to punish
guilty clerics and end a culture of complacency on the issue.
The recent
Australian Royal Commission hearings of Vatican number three George Pell
and a preliminary criminal probe into accusations that Lyon's
archbishop, Philippe Barbarin, covered up for a paedophile priest has
put the question of Church complicity in abuse back at the top of the
Vatican agenda.