“This is the moment of shame,” pope says about France abuse report By Reuters
© Reuters. Pope Francis greets bishops throughout the weekly basic viewers within the Paul VI Corridor, on the Vatican, October 6, 2021. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
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By Angelo Amante
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis mentioned on Wednesday he was saddened and ashamed by the Catholic Church’s lack of ability to take care of sexual abuse of kids in France and that the Church should make itself a “protected dwelling for everybody”.
“I wish to specific to the victims my unhappiness, sorrow for the trauma they’ve suffered and likewise my disgrace, our disgrace, for the church’s lack of ability, for too lengthy, to place them on the centre of its considerations,” Francis mentioned at his weekly basic viewers.
Talking a day after a serious investigation revealed that French clergy had abused greater than 200,000 youngsters over 70 years, the pontiff invited Catholics in France to take accountability for what had occurred as a way to make the Church a “protected dwelling for everybody”.
“That is the second of disgrace,” he mentioned, calling on bishops to make each efforts to make sure that “related tragedies don’t occur once more”.
Earlier than the viewers started, the pope and several other visiting French bishops prayed silently for the victims of abuse, an image launched by the Vatican confirmed.
Jean-Marc Sauve, head of the fee that compiled the report, mentioned the Church had proven indifference in direction of the abuses for years, preferring to guard itself slightly than the victims, lots of them aged between 10 and 13.
The peak of the abuse was 1950-1970, the fee mentioned in its report, with an obvious resurgence in circumstances within the early Nineties.
The pontiff added that he was near French monks coping with a “arduous, but wholesome” problem.
The Pope had already expressed his gratitude to victims for the braveness that they had in coming ahead and denouncing what that they had been by way of.
A number of hours after the pope spoke, a Vatican court docket cleared two monks charged in reference to alleged sexual abuse in a youth seminary within the Vatican between 2006 and 2012.
The trial is the primary within the Vatican regarding sexual abuse that allegedly occurred on Vatican territory.
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