Pope Francis I

Since becoming pope in 2013, the Argentine pontiff has striven to tackle the decades-long sexual abuse scandals involving Catholic priests around the globe.

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Women are not permitted to be deacons in the Catholic Church, but that could soon change

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The idea is that the 114 heads of bishops’ conferences will return home with clear ideas on how to spot and deal with abuse

The Vatican has already warned that in some countries the church is dragging its feet because of cultural difference over what constitutes child abuse

The Church has been hit by a series of child abuse scandals in recent years

In front of 45 000 supporters in the west of Ireland, the pope spoke of the ‘open wound’ of the Church’s sexual abuse scandal

The pope has admitted that the Church had ‘delayed’ in applying the necessary sanctions

‘Circling each other now, each fighter coming in for the obligatory mock charge’