Pope asks for forgiveness over abuse scandals

The Pope begged forgiveness from clerical abuse victims today and promised to “do everything possible” to ensure priests never molest children ever again.

He made the pledge during a Mass in St. Peter’s Square marking the end of the Vatican’s Year of the Priest, a celebration of the priesthood that has been marred by revelations of hundreds of new cases of clerical abuse, cover-up and Vatican inaction to root out paedophiles.