“The culture of abuse and cover-up is incompatible with the logic of the Gospel,” the pope wrote.

In another surprise decision, Pope Francis has decided to send Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu to Chile.

The encounters will take place from June 1-3 at Santa Marta, the Vatican guesthouse where Francis lives.

Righteous call-outs should be patterned after Cardinal O’Malley’s rebuke of Pope Francis on sex abuse.

“I saw someone who was caring for someone, not worrying about if we are gay, straight, brown, white.”

Philip Wilson was found guilty of failing to inform police about allegations of the sexual abuse of minors by a priest in the 1970s.