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French bishops kneel in penance over church’s role in child abuse

A conference in Lourdes recognised that Catholic Church had allowed abuses to become ‘systemic’.

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Senior members of France’s Roman Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes on Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church’s responsibility for decades of child abuse, reports The Guardian

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