(AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo) Catholic Priests Fernando Ramos, left, and Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, spokespersons for the Episcopal Conference, speak to the press about a letter from Pope Francis in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, May 31, 2018. Pope Francis became the first pope to publicly denounce a "culture of abuse and cover-up" in the Catholic Church, saying Thursday in a pastoral letter to the Chilean faithful, that he was ashamed that neither he nor Chile's Catholic leaders truly ever listened to victims as the country's abuse scandal spiraled.