French Bishops Kneel In Penance For Decades Of Child Sex Abuse By Church
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Church Sex Abuse: Some survivors said they were still waiting for details of compensation and of a comprehensive reform of the French Catholic church, after many thousands of child sexual abuse cases by the French clergy came to light.
Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
But some of the victims of the abuse -- and lay members supporting them -- said they were still waiting for details of compensation and of a comprehensive reform of the church.
In Lourdes, a place of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide, some 120 archbishops, bishops and laymen gathered at the unveiling of a photo showing a sculpture representing the head of a weeping child.
At the request of the victims, the clerics did not wear their religious clothing for the ceremony.
