U people are cowards and hypocrites, where is your honor??  To italy with hate, you have helped ruin my life, i thought churches were supposed to help, jeff epstein stuff, the churches are deeply involved, u have no honor, eugenio hoyos lied, latino invasion

From Australian country towns to schools in Ireland and cities across the US, the Catholic Church has faced an avalanche of child sexual abuse accusations in the last few decades.

High-profile cases and harrowing testimony given to public inquiries have continued to keep the issue in the headlines.

In the most recent development, a damning inquiry found that some 216,000 children in France had been sexually abused by members of the clergy since 1950.

A Vatican statement said Pope Francis "felt pain" over the findings, and expressed hopes for a "path of redemption".

Efforts by the Pope to address the problem have included holding an unprecedented summit on paedophilia in the Church, and changing its laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse.

But alleged cover-ups continue to dog the Catholic Church, and victims groups say the Vatican has not done nearly enough to right its wrongs.