In clear words condemned Pope Francis on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and a mentality change required. Concrete steps he called – victims ‘ associations responded disappointed.
Green chasubles, the image embossed in the magnificent Sala Regia in the Apostolic Palace. This color of the liturgical vestments, in which the participants of the Anti-abuse conference celebrated the closing mass, in the Catholic Church to Grow, hope, and life.
Of the need for “a Copernican of the Catholic Church in the fight against sexual abuse turning” voice in the sermon, the Australian Archbishop Benedict Coleridge.
Pope Francis took advantage of his subsequent speech, to make his consternation in the face of multiple sexual abuse by representatives of the Catholic Church: “The Echo of silent scream, the Small, have found in them, instead of fathers and spiritual leaders of the People of-a-bitch, the hypocrisy and Power of the stunned heart to tremble. We have a duty, this things strangled, silent scream listen carefully.”
priests and bishops, the schindern to “People”, with the date of the harshest words used by the Pope, to condemn the abuse within his Church.
The color green is in the Catholic Church to Grow, hope, and life. What follows on the Anti-abuse conference?
“Global spread of this Evil”
Francis dedicated himself to in his speech also detailed the sexual abuse in society in General, of the be done in Europe alone, millions of times, and underlined, according to various investigations of this abuse would take place mainly in the family, in the domestic four walls.
at the same time Francis made it clear in front of the present leaders of the Episcopal conference: “We need to be Clear about: The worldwide spread of this Evil, not confirmed how serious it is for our companies, but detracts from his abomination within the Church.”
Pope announced no concrete steps
At the beginning of the conference, had urged Francis to concrete results in the fight against sexual abuse. Today, in his final speech, he condemned the abuse of sharp, acknowledged the failures of the past and called for a change in Mentality.
Francis declined, however, to a large extent, to designate itself to specific steps of the Catholic Church in the fight against the abuse. Instead, he repeated his statement from December, the Church will be, has committed such crimes, and handed over to the judiciary. The Pope was at the same time, it should be in future a mandatory Norm for all bishops ‘ conferences around the world to pursue cases of abuse relentlessly:
“No abuse should ever be covered up, as was usual in the past, or be assessed, because the cover-up of abuse favors the spread of the Evil, and, in addition, a further level of scandal.”
victims requested demotion
victims ‘ associations had demanded in the past few days, with emphasis, that at the end of the conference, concrete changes in Church law. Among other things, the mandatory requirement that priests and bishops are degraded to the lay state if they have committed abuse or covered.
Francis turned to the end of his speech with a General appeal for a decisive campaign against the abuse of inside and outside of the Church: “Earnestly I appeal to all leaders and individuals, in all areas, to fight against the abuse of Minors in sexual as in other areas, because it is a heinous crime that must be eradicated on the face of the earth.”
“A missed opportunity”
victims ‘ associations have criticized the speech of the Pope. It is a shame to be a loose attempt to put at the top of the movement in the fight against abuse, without any real changes to address, wrote to Matthias Katsch of the German organisation Concerned with leaf-table via Twitter. Thomas Schüller, Director for Canon law at the University of Münster, called the Pope’s speech a “fiasco” and a “missed opportunity”.
Pope-speech abuse conference plus reactions victims
Jörg Seisselberg, NDR Rome
24.02.2019 12:43 PM
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