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24 March 2017

Cardinal O’Malley defends Pope Francis on anti-abuse fight

U.S. Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, speaks during a seminar on safeguarding children at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome March 23. 
At a symposium on clerical sexual abuse in Rome, Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, president of an anti-abuse commission in the Vatican, said there's "no doubt" Pope Francis is fully committed to the cause, but one expert argued the absence of abuse survivors at the event suggests "we still haven't gotten it."