内容摘要："I lied to you and forced you into a spotlight of public humiliation," he said to his family.

"I lied to you and forced you into a spotlight of public humiliation," he said to his family.

In the eyes of many, he failed to unequivocally call out Russian aggression in UkraineFrom the very start of his papacy, he also faced huge tasks confronting misconduct much closer to home.

The scourge of corruption had long dogged the upper echelons of the Catholic Church. Early on, Pope Francis closed thousands of unauthorised Vatican bank accounts, and in the latter half of his time he introduced new rules on financial transparency.It was in the way he dealt with the horrors of child sexual abuse by those associated with the Catholic Church that made it clear he knew it was something he would be judged by."From the very start of my papacy, I felt I was being called to take responsibility for all the evil committed by certain priests," he wrote in Hope.

, in 2020 the Catholic Church released lists of living members of clergy in the US alone found to have been accused of sexual abuses - these included clergy linked to child pornography and rape. There were around 2,000."With shame and repentance, the Church must seek pardon for the terrible damage that those clergy have caused with their sexual abuse of children, a crime that causes deep wounds of pain," he recently wrote.

Among other initiatives, Pope Francis introduced rules that meant members of the Church had a responsibility to report on abuse if they had knowledge of it, otherwise they risked being removed from their positions.

Though he made errors of judgement, on occasions publicly supporting clergy even though they were alleged to have failed to deal with abuse, Pope Francis was quick to apologise for his own mistakes and for the deep failings of the Church.Meanwhile, BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has urged media regulator Ofcom to consider fining X after this weekend's disorder.

Adam Leon Smith, a fellow of BCS, said: "When misinformation leads to riots and unrest, there must be consequences. It is easy to argue that X has shown disregard for public safety in hosting such content."We urge Ofcom to enforce the Online Safety Act as soon as they can, with the full weight of the law and levy significant fines if they find mismanagement on the platform."

On Monday, Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said he had met representatives from TikTok, Facebook’s parent company Meta, Google and X "to make clear their responsibility to continue to work with us to stop the spread of hateful misinformation and incitement".The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper