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Pope Francis is expected to meet Belgian victims of clerical sex abuse on Friday as he embarks on a three-day visit to the country partially overshadowed by the Catholic Church’s dark past.
But the heart of the Argentine pontiff’s 46th trip abroad will arguably be his acknowledgement of priest paedophilia in a country tarred by decades of scandals and cover-ups. Some of the testimony in last year’s documentary revealed secrets buried for decades, denouncing Church efforts to protect aggressors and difficulties in getting justice.
In a sign of the work yet to be done, the program of an open-air mass concluding Francis’s trip on Sunday had to be changed at the last minute after it emerged that the closing hymn was composed by a priest accused of sexual abuse.
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