In Rome to advise the Catholic bishops on measures against abuse in the Church. They talk about the perpetrators – the victims complain that they play only a minor role.
they are the faces of this summit: women and men who were abused as children by priests miss. While the bishops advise behind closed doors, the Survivors do not get tired to tell in front of the Vatican gates to your story.
Many tried to take the life
Alessandro Battaglia was in need of 15 by a priest sexually abused. “Each of us has at least once tried to take his own life,” he says. Only with much effort he manages to talk about the Trauma of his life. He was in his youth active in the Church, as a scout and as a youth leader, has lost his Faith. “You have stolen from me the Faith. In a Church, a God who allows such a thing, I can’t believe it.”
In the case of the trial against the man who raped Battaglia, comes out that the Bishop has at that time recommended not to put the offender. “In Italy there are five bishops who have admitted before the court, to have pedophile priests in other communities, which have so covered up as in my case did,” says Battaglia.
15 was in need of Alessandro Battaglia of a priest.
How serious is the Church?
The then competent Bishop is now Archbishop of Milan, an important man in the Catholic Church in Italy. In cases such as these, Peter Isely of the victim organization, SNAP will measure the Pope and the bishops.
If the Church is serious with Zero tolerance, so Isely, starts after the conference on Monday a new era. “On Monday morning, the bishops will need to be commissioned,” he urges. “If there are in your diocese a priest, the sexual abuse of children have committed to be on Monday afternoon, discharged from office. And bishops, the crimes have to be covered, must be removed from positions of Responsibility and in a second step, from the priesthood to be dismissed.”
Reinhard cardinal Marx, the German bishops ‘ conference, on the content of the conference in the Vatican
issues of the day at 22:15, 21.02.2019
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