"I believe that for the moment that resolving the problems of abuse has to be under the competence of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith," Francis said.
This issue has long been under the jurisdiction of the CFTDOTF. To describe their handling of it as "competence" challenges anyone's understanding of the word. Were they not the ones who were "asleep", as it were, until now?I simply don't understand how leaving the solution of the single most divisive and destructive problem in Church history to the institutional arm which has failed to address it adequately for decades is any kind of a response.Indeed, this answer from Francis  leaves me more pessimistic about the prospects for a comprehensive, reformative and healing response. God help us!