translated from Spanish: The Vatican expressed his “shame and pain” for abuses by clergy of Pennsylvania

the Vatican expressed Thursday “shame and pain” for the scathing report that a Pennsylvania researcher jury issued about priests pedophiles in s EIS Diocese of that State, and stated that these behaviors are “reprehensible criminal and morally”. Father Francisco want to eradicate “this tragic horror”, he added. In a statement of energetic language out of the ordinary for the Holy see even in matters like the vintage scandals of pedophilia that have stained the U.S. Church, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke sought to assure victims that “the Pope is in its” side”. The pontiff was not cited in the text, nor mentioned the demands of some Catholics in the United States for a cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington.En to resign his report released this week, jury researcher accused the Cardinal of contribute to the protection of some priests involved in abuse and sexual harassment of minors when Bishop of Pittsburgh, in Pensilvania.En was his statement, Burke described paedophilia cases included in the document as “betray the trust you” They stole the survivors their dignity and their faith”.” The Church must learn the hard lessons of the past, and those who committed abuses such as those that allowed them both should be held accountable,”he added. For decades, the victims and their advocates have long lamented that senior Catholic clerics repeatedly put the reputation of the Church above their obligations to protect children from the harms caused by pedophile priests. In a sign that the Pope Francisco wants to put an end to that way of thinking widely among the Church hierarchy, he recently accepted the resignation of Theodore McCarrick, Washington ones, to the rank of Cardinal for alleged sexual misconduct. The prelate is the first that loses its rank of cardinal in a child abuse scandal. Burke said that Francisco “well understood how much these crimes can shake the faith and the spirit of the believers, and reiterates the call that every effort be made in order to create a safe environment for children and adults vulnerable in the Church and all of civil society” (d)”. The jury research documented in its report how the pedophile priests were protected frequently by the hierarchy of ecclesiastical or transferred to other destinations without that report to the faithful about the history of sexual predation of these cures.

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