Good evening. For more than two decades the image of the Catholic Church has been severely tarnished by sexual abuse scandals. Today pope francis some of some of those abused by priests scompessing sorrow and asking for forgiveness. He said the roman Catholic Church should weep and make reparations of these crimes which he compared to a satanic cult. Lets listen to what the pontiff had to say. Translator i ask for your forgiveness for the sins of a the leaders of the tchauch have not answered adequately for the allegations of abuse from the family members. And by those that were the ictims of abuse. Pope francis speaking a little bit earlier today. For now we go to our rome correspondent cima gupta. Cima, talk us through what happened there at the vatican today. Essentially pope francis did say those word during a homily during the mass celebrated with the victims inside the vatican this morning. Then after he said those dramatic words begging for forgiveness, he also met personally wi