translated from Spanish: The Pope

the Pope will meet with victims of abuse in Ireland Francisco will meet a group of victims of abuse by clergy in Dublin and will pray for them in the Cathedral of Dublin, during his trip to Ireland next weekend week to participate in the world meeting of the Familia.asi the spokesman for the Vatican, Greg Burke, announced to give details of the visit by the Pontiff on 25 and 26 August to Ireland, a country where the wound abuses children from religious yet still ab ierta. Today it was also learned that Francisco will stop to pray for the victims during his visit to the Cathedral before a candle that was placed in this temple to remember them. The Argentine Pontiff held private meetings with victims in all countries where members of the Church have committed these crimes, as in Chile or the United States, and also will in Dublin.” It is important for the Pope to listen to them”, said Burke, who did not want to give more details of how the meeting, since it was considered that they should be the victims which authorize to disclose how he spent the meeting, as it has happened other times. The trip of the Pope to the world family meeting is preceded by a new scandal that has splashed the Catholic Church with the publication by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (USA) of a report documenting 300 alleged cases of “predator priests” sex in that State and which is identified 1,000 minors as victims from 1940.Pero, in addition, the visit is Ireland, where dozens of priests abused minors and the Catholic hierarchy systematically concealed complaints to avoid the scandal over a period understood between 1975 and 2004.Es likely that Francisco also refers to this scandal in some public speeches that decision in the events of his visit. The Pontiff yesterday wrote a letter to all Catholics, in an unprecedented gesture, expressing “shame” and “repentance” for the cases of abuse and admit that the Church failed to act or recognize the gravity of the damage that was causing. Although the voyage of Francisco will be inevitably marked by this topic, Vatican spokesman stressed that the visit would focus on the “family”. That is why, in addition to the two main acts of the world meeting, the Pontiff has wanted to visit the Welcome Centre of the Capuchin Fathers serving families with difficulties and feeds nearly 350 people a day. Another moment that were not included in the initial program of the Pope will stop to pray before the remains of Matt Talbot (1856-1925), which is in the process of beatification, and which was an Irish Catholic worker who fell into alcoholism and whose Vice with version helped him change his life. The first act in Ireland, where Francisco was already in 1980 to learn English, will be the visit of courtesy to the Irish Presidential Palace, where after the speeches will plant a tree as did Juan Pablo II on his trip to that country in the late Francis 1979.Por is move to the Cathedral St. Mary’s and will stop to pray in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, where a candle has been placed to remember all the victims of abuse by Irish clergy. Conclude the day with a meeting at the stadium Croke, where you place the so-called “party of families”, and will deliver the second speech of the six interventions that has planned and will be in Italian. There you will hear the testimonies of six families from the India, Canada, Iraq, Ireland and Burkina Faso.Su second day in Ireland will begin with a visit to the shrine of Knock, important place of Catholic pilgrimage in County Mayo, where was John Paul II in 1979.En the Esplanade of the shrine will preside over the recitation of the Angelus and in the afternoon will serve the mass in the Park Phoenix, as the final event of the world meeting of families which will be announced the next city that will host this event in three years. Francisco will meet with the bishops in the convent of the Dominican nuns and will them to those who direct their speech of the day, the last of his brief trip of just 36 hours to Ireland.

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