Archbishop Cupich at Vatican: Catholic leaders need to be held more accountable; 4 Chicago priests have children

Cardinals attending Pope Francis’ summit on preventing clergy sex abuse, including Chicago’s Blase Cupich, called Friday for a new culture of accountability in the Catholic Church to punish bishops and religious superiors when they fail to protect their flocks from predator priests. On the second day of Francis’ extraordinary gathering of Catholic leaders, the focus of debate shifted to how church leaders must acknowledge that decades of their own cover-up, secrecy and fear of scandal had only worsened the crisis.

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