city of the Vatican (AP) – the Pope Francisco promised on Monday that “it will spare no effort” to eradicate sexual abuse by priests and the cover-up of the Catholic Church, but didn’t or clues that will take measures to punish the bishops complicit or to put an end to the culture of silence in the Vatican which has allowed the crisis from taking root. In a letter addressed to Catholics around the world after the new revelations of abuse in United States, Francisco tried to project a firm response against the perpetrators and a compassionate side to the victims before a trip to Ireland this end weekend. Francis asked forgiveness for the pain suffered by the victims and said that it should be included to lay Catholics in the efforts to banish the abuse and cover-up. He ran against the clerical culture to which has been attributed the crisis, in which the leaders of the Church have been more concerned about their reputation than the safety of children.
“We have neglected and abandoned children,” he wrote. Only the Pope can discipline bishops, but offered no indications of change longstanding practice of the Vatican be lax when the top of the Church make a mishandling of a case of abuse or are negligent at the time to protect his congregation. He said that it was aware of the “effort and the work carried out in various parts of the world” to ensure the protection of children and make accountable those who commit or conceal abuse.
Photo: AP but did not make any reference of what the Vatican plans to make, limited to say: “we have delayed in implementing these actions and sanctions as necessary, but I am confident that it will help to ensure a greater culture of care in the present and in the future”.
For many victims of abuse, the Charter was seen as little more than a recycled speech that does not recognize the Vatican has been turn a blind eye to abusive priests and that it has promoted the culture of silence which has allowed the crimes to remain unpunished du During decades.” That culture was supervised by the #Vaticano and codified in law,”said Twitter Colm o ‘ Gorman, a well-known Irish abuse survivor, who organized a rally of victims in Dublin during the visit of Francis. “You need name and recognize the problem.” Marie Collins, another well known Irish victim which, due to frustration, resigned from the Committee against sexual abuse, said that the releases on the terrible thing of sexual abuse and the responsibility of the bishops are irrelevant.
Photo: AP “better tell us what is being done so that they are held accountable”, tweet. “This is what we want to hear. ‘” Working on it ‘ is not an acceptable explanation to the decades of ‘delays’ “.” Is expected that the issue of sexual abuse will dominate the trip of the Pope to Ireland, that was once a fervent Catholic nation and where the credibility of the Church has been devastated by years of revelations that priests raped and abused children with impunity and encubie RTOS by their superiors.
But the issue has gained more weight since it emerged in United States that one of the Cardinals of confidence of the Pontiff, Theodore McCarrick, the Archbishop retired from Washington, allegedly abused and harassed to juvenile and adult seminarians.
In addition, last week a report by an investigative jury revealed that at least 1,000 children were victims of about 300 priests in the past 70 years, and generations of bishops did not take appropriate measures to protect parishioners or punish violators . In this note: Vatican City Pope Francisco Sexual abuse bishops
