Pope Francis will meet Thursday with a delegation of U.S. cardinals and bishops over the sex abuse and coverup scandal roiling the Catholic Church and his own papacy, the Vatican said Tuesday. DiNardo has also said recent accusations that top Vatican officials — including the Pope — covered up for McCarrick deserve answers. Vatican spokesperson Greg Burke said DiNardo would meet with Francis on Thursday in the Apostolic Palace, along with Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the Pope's top sex abuse adviser. "In these times, it seems like the 'Great Accuser' has been unchained and has it in for bishops," he said. But he said the years-long scandal, and recent revelations in a Pennsylvania grand jury report, showed just "how many souls have been wounded irrevocably and mortally by priests from the Catholic Church."

Source: CBC News September 11, 2018 21:00 UTC