Pope Francis said on Saturday that the Roman Catholic Church was weary and “wounded by her own sin,” in an apparent reference to the global sexual abuse crisis. He used the words “weary,” “wearisome” or “weariness” about 20 times in the homily.
Church’s self-inflicted, wearisome wounds
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