Pope Francis urged the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics to 'take courage' and not let the Church's failings drive them away from during his annual Christmas Eve message at the Vatican on Tuesday.
that previously protected the Church in the sexual abuse scandal.
it identified 33 priests and 71 seminarians who had sexually abused minors over the past eight decades. A third of the priestly abusers were also themselves victims of the Legion's late founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel. Days earlier, the pope also accepted the resignation of Luigi Ventura, the Vatican's ambassador to France, who faces accusations of molesting a male employee of the city of Paris.
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