MIRIAM NNOLI 
Following his three-day visit to Belgium, Pope Francis on Friday said the Catholic Church must “Seek forgiveness” over the “Scourge” of child sexual abuse.
Standing before political and civil society leaders that opened his three-day visit to the country, Francis condemned the “Tragic instances of child abuse” as a stain on the Church’s legacy.
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“It is our shame and our humiliation,” Francis told the gathering at the Laeken Palace royal residency.
“The Church must be ashamed and must seek forgiveness.”
As part of his three-day, stay in the country, Pope Francis is due to meet with a group of clerical sexual assault victims in Brussels later in the day.
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