Pope Francis is seen as the four-day meeting on the global sexual abuse crisis takes place at the Vatican February 21, 2019. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church must repair the "systematic failures" that enabled sexual abuse to take root around the world, and bishops should start policing each other's behaviour, leading cardinals said on Friday.
Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago and Oswald Gracias of Mumbai spoke on the second day of a conference of some 200 senior Church officials convened by Pope Francis to confront what he has called the scourge of sexual abuse by the clergy.
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