Pope admits abuse of nuns by priests and bishops

"There were priests and bishops who have done that," said Francis. Such incidents could happen anywhere, but are especially common in "some of the new congregations and, in some regions," said the Pope. The Church lace work already "long" in the topic. the

Pope Francis has given to the sexual abuse of nuns in the Catholic Church. "It is true, it is a Problem," he said on the return flight from Abu Dhabi to Rome.

"I know that priests and bishops have done," said the Pontiff, and intimated that the cases of abuse in the present. "I think it is still done," he said to a question, what do the Vatican on sexual abuse of religious sisters. It concern some cultures or religious communities more than others. "It is not a thing."

The Vatican have been working for a long time on the Problem, the Pope. However, it is not a Problem from today to tomorrow leave leave. Some women's religious communities had been disbanded, some of the clergy had been suspended "" and "sent away". "You have to do more (against the Problem)? Yes. We want to make more? Yes."

he spoke to the case of a community from the past, in which women "like slaves" treated. It had gone up to the "sexual slavery" by the cleric and the founder of the community, Francis.

In his reply, recalled Pope Francis in his German predecessor Benedict XVI, "It is called sometimes, Pope Benedict was a weak Pope," said Francis, "that's right, he is a strong man." He started in his congregation with the fight against abuse, albeit with setbacks. "We need to continue to make, and I want to make," said the Pope. Concrete measures he called.

replied to As Francis the questions, he was on the flight back from Abu Dhabi. For the first time a Pope celebrated with Pope Francis in the Arabian Peninsula, a large worship service. At the show in Zayed sports stadium in the capital Abu Dhabi for more than 120 took part, according to Church information, 000 people around 100 different nationalities, including 4 000 of the Muslims.