Pope in Portugal

The Pope's in Portugal for the church's World Youth Day summit, and Francis met with some victims of clergy sex abuse there, because ...

A report this year concluded that at least 4,815 children had been abused in Portugal and that the Church had sought "systematically" to conceal the issue. - BBC

The meeting with the Pope took place with just a few vitims and was, as it always is, kept secret as to what was said/done. There's just one time I'm aware of where one of the victims taking part in a secret meeting with the Pope actually broke the silence. From the Irish Times ...

Irish abuse victim tells Pope she wants Cardinal Brady removed

Clerical child abuse survivor Marie Kane (43) has asked Pope Francis to remove Cardinal Seán Brady as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland due to his handling of a clerical child abuse inquiry in 1975 ....

“It’s a big thing with me that there are still members of the hierarchy there who were involved in the cover-up. I feel personally they (Church) cannot contemplate any change happening, there will be no success” as long as such people remained in place, she told The Irish Times today.

During a meeting in the Vatican, she told Pope Francis that “cover-up is still happening and you have the power to make these changes.” There were others besides Cardinal Brady, she said, but “I didn’t want to go into a litany.”

Pope Francis responded that “it was difficult to make these changes,” ..

Pope Francis has done nothing to ameliorate the clergy sex abuse problem. Nothing. He refuses to apply a world-wide standard of reporting to police of sex abuse by priests and other church workers ... Pope mandates reporting of sex abuse to church, not police. He refuses to extradite pedophile priests and bishops hiding out at the Vatican ... Vatican Tells Poles It Won’t Extradite Archbishop Accused of Pedophilia. Pope Francis refuses to consider married priests. He refuses to consider women priests. The list goes on

There are exceptions, but overall, the Pope and the church cannot and will not be held accountable for clergy sex abuse. And Catholics just keep on being Catholic. I guess the only children that matter are the "unborn".