translated from Spanish: Pope calls for help from young people to abuse: “When they see a priest at risk, remind their commitment”

the Pope Francisco has asked for help to young people in the fight against sexual abuse in the Church and has proposed them to c hen see a priest “at risk”, remember their “commitment” to him and encourage him to return to “the good way”. So he implies in his post-synodal Apostolic exhortation ‘live Christ’, a document inspired by the reflections and dialogues of the Synod of bishops on youth of last October. In the text, signed on March 25 in Loreto and published on Tuesday, April 2, the Pope devotes a section to abuse entitled ‘Put an end to all kinds of abuses’ that says that “there is no turning back” in the application of “actions and sanctions” and that i “nvita youngsters demanding”coherence”to priests and religious.” Young people ask when they see a priest at risk, because it has lost the joy of his Ministry, because you are looking for emotional compensation or it is wrong course, dare to remind you of your commitment with God and his people, announce you the Gospel and encourage him to stay on the right track. “” Thus you shall render an invaluable aid in something fundamental: prevention that allows to avoid repetition of these atrocities “, says Francisco.” NUBE NEGRA “thus, ensures that in the midst of this”black cloud”, youth can bring”much”with its ability to”renew, claim, demand coherence and witness, return to dream and reinvent”. In any case, the Pope points out that “priests who fell in these horrific crimes are not the most”. “In addition, adds that this”is not the only sin of the members of the Church, whose history has many shadows”and that these sins are visible because the Church does not”aesthetic surgery”.” Our sins are visible to all; they reflect mercilessly in the wrinkles of the millennial face of our mother and teacher. Because she walks from two thousand years ago, sharing the joys and the hopes, sorrows and anxieties of men. And walking as it is, without getting plastic surgery. Not afraid to show the sins of its members, that sometimes some of them try to hide”, he adds. In the midst of this “drama” which, as he acknowledges, “hurts in the soul”, at the “dark moment”, the Pontiff is confident that with the help of young people, the Church will “open a new Pentecost and begin a stage of purification”. CONFIDENCE in LOS Jovenesdurante the presentation of the injunction on Tuesday at the Vatican, the Secretary general of the Synod of bishops, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, explained that when the Pope asks young people to see when a priest ‘at-risk’ you remember its commitment, although I may give the impression that corresponds to young people to stop priests who abuse, are really a matter “of confidence in young people”. On the other hand, Francisco asked a Catholic Church that supports and pay attention to the “legitimate demands of women,” Although not commune with all the feminist discourse.” A church too fearful and structured can permanently be critical before all the speeches on the protection of the rights of women, and constantly point out risks and errors of those claims. On the other hand, a living Church may react with attention to the legitimate claims of women who call for more justice and equality”, he stressed. AUTHORITARIANISM and violence MACHISTAFrancisco also invited to recognize the “authoritarianism” of men in the past and “violence against women”. “A living Church can remember history and recognize a long plot of authoritarianism by males, of subjugation, of various forms of slavery, abuse and violence against women,” he says. With this vision, as you add, the Church will be able to “do” their own “claims” of the rights of women “and will give its contribution with conviction for a greater reciprocity between men and women, even if not agree with everything proposed some groups feminists”. THE Charter MAGNA DE LA PASTORAL JUVENILEl Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri has explained that this exhortation is “the magna carta of Youth Ministry”. “The Pope calls it a letter and called to create open spaces in the Church for all those who have another view of life”, said during the presentation of the magisterial text. In particular, it has been pointed out that the new document contains a total of 299 points distributed in nine chapters in which Francisco alternating the epistolary format aimed at every young person of your your pastoral orientations for the whole Church. “Jesucristo does not belong only to the past, but also the present and the future,” he stressed. Asked about the absence of a call in his exhortation that women occupy more positions of leadership in the Church, Baldisseri has pointed out that the Pope “could not speak of everything” in the document. Meanwhile, Undersecretary of the Synod of bishops, Fabio Fabene, pointed out is not a causality which this papal document was filed on the 14th anniversary of the death of san Juan Pablo II since it was “the first Pope to write a letter to the young s”.the example of Joan of arc or SAN FRANCISCO’s Asisademas, has made the importance that the Pope has developed a list of 12 young people, of different moments of history, who”lived the Holiness each in its own way”, which” did not know the adult life and dejaro n the testimony of another way of living the youth”. In particular, the Pope quotes in the text: San Sebastian, San Francisco de Asís, Santa Juana de Arco, blessed Andrés Phû Yên, santa Catalina Tekakwitha, Santo Domingo Savio, Saint Therese of the child Jesus, the blessed Ceferino Namuncurá, Isidoro Bakanja Beatus, blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Marcel Callo blessed and blessed Chiara Badano.ademas, the prefect of the Congregation for the communication of the Holy See, Paolo Ruffini, underlined the idea that this document of the Pope is not left alone in “written words”, but set in motion “a process”. EASY to understand and no Arcaismosen the presentation has also intervened the youth of Ghana Laphidil Oppong Twumasi, who participated in the drafting of the final document of the Synod of youth convened in October of last year by the Pope, and he appreciated that the “exhortation ‘Live Christ’ use a language”easily understood”and without”archaisms”.” It is easy to understand and not lost in the archaisms, in fact, I found how tutorial terms, zapping and influencer, I would say that they are youth terms. A pleasant discovery has been see such terms in an official document of the Church”, said 25-year-old.

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