PHILADELPHIA: Pope Francis on Sunday (Monday in Manila) used the last day of his historic US tour to meet victims of the church's devastating sex abuse scandal, saying "God weeps" for their suffering, and pledging to hold those responsible to account.

One rare criticism of the pope during his six-day trip to Washington, New York and Philadelphia, which ended Sunday with a giant open-air mass, was that he did not have such a meeting on his public agenda.

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