penitent and pastor
訪米中の最終日，フランシスコ・ローマ法王はフィラデルフィアで開かれた司教の集会で聖職者による児童性的虐待の被害者と面会したことを明らかにしました。本文，最初のturned penitent and pastorとはどのような意味でしょうか。Kawadaくん，どうぞ。（INahoo）
On Final Day, Pope Meets Prisoners and Bishops Ahead of Mass
PHILADELPHIA — Pope Francis turned penitent and pastor Sunday on the final day of a visit to the United States, declaring himself “overwhelmed by shame” at the sexual violation of children by his clergy, embracing inmates at a local jail, urging young people to leave the loneliness of social media and preparing to bid farewell with a huge downtown Mass.
Since arriving in the United States on Tuesday, Francis had been met by large crowds — tens of thousands during a Central Park drive-through in New York, in Madison Square Garden; several hundred thousand on Saturday night for a potpourri of prayer, musical performances and testimonials at a festival for the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Families.
Sunday’s Mass, centered on Eakins Oval in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, presents the pope on the grandest of scales, with about a million expected to pass through the city’s lockdown-emptied streets into Benjamin Franklin Parkway, studded with jumbotron screens.
Sunday began somberly, Francis announced that he had met privately with a small group of victims of clergy sexual abuse. “I am profoundly sorry that your innocence was violated by those who you trusted,” he told them, according to a transcript of his remarks released by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
He blamed some bishops for failing to protect them, or even worse, violating them. He echoed such comments publicly before a group of bishops at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, pledging that all responsible would be “held accountable.”
“God weeps,” he said. Advocates for the victims had deplored his previous comments on the trip, which seemed mainly to provide moral support for the clergy who suffered through the scandal.
