late Saturday morning, to receive the Pope for the first time, a group of Swiss abuse victims in the Vatican personally. In the rooms of the Pontiff, the Initiator of the restitution initiative, Guido Fluri, as well as a woman and a man, had experienced in the Church environment sexual abuse. The two reported Francis of their experiences, such as the Guido Fluri Foundation announced.
today, 63-year-old man was institution according to its own information, as a youth, in an education in Bad Knutwil LU of monks struck several times and sexually abused. The 74-year-old woman experienced in a Catholic nun-run home for children in Malters LU, also violence and sexual abuse.
Pope speaks of “monsters”
the Pope asked the victims in the name of the Church to forgive and to be forgiven. A human being, the need for children to miss – be it a priest, a religious man or a religious woman – a “Monster”, said the Pope, literally, say it in the message.
After the Meeting, victims ‘ representatives Fluri was satisfied. The meeting of the Pope with the Swiss victims of abuse is an important sign to the victims that the Church acknowledge the great suffering that had been done to the Victims in the Church environment. The Pope had spoken out, without If and But for the Zero-tolerance and for the criminal prosecution of the perpetrators. These words must now be followed by deeds.
Anti-abuse summit
The Meeting between Pope Francis and the Swiss Delegation took place a week after the Anti-abuse summit in the Vatican. In this Pope Francis had promised, once again, a strong intervention by the Catholic Church against sexual abuse and an end to the cover-up – name, however, without concrete consequences of the decades-long crisis.
It was the first Time that a group of Swiss abuse victims could report to the Pope of their suffering. At the Meeting cardinal Kurt Koch was present. The Vatican invited Fluri and a group of abuse victims as early as 2015 to a General audience.
9000 Affected
by the end of 2014 filed by the Solothurn entrepreneur Guido Fluri the redress initiative, the 500 million francs for the victims on social welfare coercive measures are called for. Almost two years later, the councils approved an indirect counter-proposal, introduced for the alignment of the Solidarity contribution of 300 million francs. Against 9000 of the Affected application.
enforced Welfare measures had been arranged in Switzerland until 1981. Tens of thousands of children and young people were hired out on farms or in homes placed, many were mistreated or abused. (roy/SDA)
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