Pope in crisis: From Rolling Stone to sex abuse scandal

Pope Francis has returned to Rome after a trip to South America that he may well wish he never made. The pope began his trip to Chile by asking for forgiveness for clerical sex abuses, saying he felt "pain and shame" for the damage done to victims. But when he followed up by allowing a bishop accused of covering up these abuses to attend all of his masses, consternation was accompanied by troubling questions about the pope's sincerity.

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