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The pope’s high-stakes gamble
John L.Allen Jr., CRUX
Friday, September 14, 2018
Pope Francis has scheduled a meeting for February with the presidents of the bishops’ conferences from all over the world to address equal abuse. Should the February summit come and go without perceived breakthroughs, then the take-away may be that this was a cynical cosmetic exercise, producing a sense of disillusionment from which even a formidable figure such as Francis might struggle to recover.