POPE'S PREDATOR SECRETS

Turned a blind eye till the day he died

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POPE FRANCIS went to his grave April 21 at age 88 harboring a horrible secret — he failed to fully punish the Roman Catholic Church’s pedophile priests and their enablers!

Anne Barrett Doyle — codirector of the watchdog group Bishop Accountability — acknowledges the pontiff was a “beacon of hope” to many before his fatal stroke. But she adds, “What we most needed from this pope was justice for the church’s own wounded — the children and adults sexually abused by Catholic clergy.”

In 2019, Francis issued the edict Vos estis lux mundi — Latin for “You are the light of the world” — which demanded that all clerics report any suspicions of abuse or cover-ups.

But Doyle complains the insular efforts were mired in secrecy and “didn’t involve punishments that were proportional” to the harm done, as multiple offenders were allowed to retain their lofty titles.