In the original 1996 movie City Hall, it's Al Pacino playing the Mayor of New York struggling to recover from a police shooting of an unarmed boy. As the late Roger Ebert recounts:
Pope Francis released a letter Monday condemning sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests and bishops and calling for involvement by laypeople to address the problem.
The pope's letter, which refers to the recently released grand jury report that identified more than 1,000 victims of more than 300 priests in six dioceses in Pennsylvania, does not offer specifics, but denounces clericalism and invites laypeople to join in "uprooting this culture of death."
