Weeks after its own truth-finding commission uncovered at least 10,000 victims of clerical sex abuse going back 70 years, senior French bishops have agreed to award lump-sum payments to victims, to take “responsibility.” Citing the need to take responsibility “with regards to the past, the present and the future,” the French Catholic Church on Friday…

French bishops to pay compensation to child sex-abuse victims for church’s ‘crimes and shortcomings’ — RT – Daily news