JAIME J. YAMBAO
THE state visits of Pope Francis have been hounded by the issue of the sexual misconduct of priests and its cover-up by church authorities, especially since a grand jury in Pennsylvania in the US issued a report that in three dioceses alone 700 priests victimized over 1,000 young women, boys and girls. The cry of the victims of late is that the Pope do more than acknowledge and apologize for these predators’ acts and the Church’s shortcomings.