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President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid, right, welcomes Pope Francis as he arrives at the Kadriorg Presidential Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Pope Francis concludes his four-day tour of the Baltics visiting Estonia. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

The Latest: Pope says church judged unfairly on sex abuse

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President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid, right, welcomes Pope Francis as he arrives at the Kadriorg Presidential Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Pope Francis concludes his four-day tour of the Baltics visiting Estonia. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Pope Francis acknowledges abuse scandals driving people from church

By Nicole Winfield and Jari Tanner - Associated Press

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, center, bishop of Munich and Freising and head of the German Bishops' Conference, arrives for the opening mass of the bishops' conference in Fulda, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 where the bishops will discuss a study on sexual abuse in the Catholic church in Germany. (Arne Dedert/dpa via AP)

German bishops apologize for thousands of sex abuse cases

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

FILE- In this Monday, April 24, 2017 file photo, Evelyn Rodriguez, whose teen-aged daughter was brutally slain by MS-13 gang members in 2016, listens during a news conference by Suffolk County officials in Hauppauge, N.Y. Rodriguez recognized by President Donald Trump at the State of the Union after MS-13 gang members allegedly killed her daughter was struck and killed Friday, Sept. 14, 2018 by a car at the girl's memorial. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman, File)

Mother of suspected MS-13 victim remembered as ‘warrior’

By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

U2 rock band frontman Bono Vox arrives for a press conference he held at the end of a meeting with Pope Francis, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

U2’s Bono says pope’s ‘aghast’ about church sex abuse

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This Sept. 10, 2018 photo shows a page in one of four books written by Argentine criminal defense attorney Marcelo Sancinetti, with a sentence that reads in Spanish: “The church judges with its own exclusive right,&quot; in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2010 Pope Francis commissioned the four volume, 2,000-plus page forensic study of a legal case against a convicted priest that concluded he was innocent, that his victims were lying and that the case never should have gone to trial. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Pope role in study of Argentine sex abuse case in spotlight

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis shows a crucifix during the Angelus noon prayer he delivers from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Tens of thousands of faithful have been treated to gifts from the pontiff, tiny crucifixes, distributed by nuns, refugees and some of Rome's homeless and poor after the pope’s traditional Sunday appearance to pilgrims and tourists in the square. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope gives bishops more decision-making options

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Catholic dioceses sued over disclosure of abuse allegations

By CLAUDIA LAUER - Associated Press

Providence diocese Bishop Thomas Tobin, right, enters the during the processional at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence, R.I., Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, for a day of prayer and penance he called for due to the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)

Bishop holds day of prayer and penance amid abuse scandal

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT - Associated Press

Pope Francis leaves s at the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope OKs probe into US bishop as he meets with US delegation

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this April 8, 2010 file photo a cross sits on top of a church in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) **FILE**

Report: 3,677 sex abuse cases in German Catholic Church

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

Pope Francis leaves s at the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Francis calls clergy abuse summit as issue imperils papacy

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, delivers remarks at the USCCB's annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Priest arrested in diocese of U.S. cardinal leading pope visit

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 9, 2013 file photo shows Pope Benedict XVI flanked by personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gaenswein during a Mass to mark the 900th anniversary of the Order of the Knights of Malta in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Archbishop Georg Gaenswein told a book presentation Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, that the sex abuse scandal that has convulsed the Catholic Church for years is &quot;its own 9/11.&quot; (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, files)

Vatican official: Sex abuse scandal is church’s ‘own 9/11’

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers a blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from his studio's window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Latest: Sex abuse: Pope to meet Thursday with US bishops

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Faithful and pilgrims gather in St.Peter's Square, as Pope Francis recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope tells bishops to fight abuse, culture behind it

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE – In this May 15, 2018, file photo, acting New York state Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood speaks in Albany, N.Y. Underwood has subpoenaed all eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state as part of her office's investigation into the church's handling of sex abuse allegations. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York Catholic dioceses subpoenaed in sex abuse probe

By DAVID KLEPPER - Associated Press

FILE – In this May 15, 2018, file photo, acting New York state Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood speaks in Albany, N.Y. Underwood has subpoenaed all eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state as part of her office's investigation into the church's handling of sex abuse allegations. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

The Latest: NJ church says it will cooperate with probe

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In this picture taken on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, French tourists visit the church of Saint George in the village of Lukava, Czech Republic. In the year of 2012 the art student Jakub Hadrava filled the church's pews with ghostly figures, made from plaster casts of live models draped in white cloth. The effect is chilling. He called the work 'My Mind'. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

AP PHOTOS: Czech ‘ghost church’ gets new life from tourism

By ADAM PEMBLE and PETR JOSEK - Associated Press

New Jersey lawmaker seeks grand jury to investigate church

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