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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Tuesday led a prayer service asking forgiveness for the failings of the Catholic Church, including treatment by clergy of women and survivors of sexual abuse, as Catholic leaders prepared to begin a month-long summit at the Vatican.The ceremony in St.
Francis told attendees he wrote the requests himself "because it was necessary to call our sins by their first and last names".Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the retiring archbishop of Boston who leads the Vatican's commission on clergy sexual abuse, asked forgiveness for abuse.
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