translated from Spanish: Rector Sanchez rejects criticism for the creation of a sexual abuse study center: it is not “an image wash”

The rector of the Pontifical Catholic University, Ignacio Sánchez, referred to the criticisms he has received after signing the agreement with the Foundation for Trust, with the aim of creating the Research Center of the Abuse and Early Adversity (CARE), a center that will study cases of sexual abuse.
On this, the rector said that “I am not at all afraid of criticism of extreme sectors on one side and the other, they just tell me that we are on a good path and with the conviction that we have we will continue to work on it.”
Sanchez argued, in an interview with Duna radio, that “I believe that the contribution that the Catholic University is giving and the progress we are making is significantly important for the country.”
One of the criticisms that are repeated is that this covenant is a wash of images. In the face of this, the rector dismisses it because “we have been working directly with the Trust Foundation for almost a year. The foundation has its goals, so do we. In our country we have to look for points of agreement. If we look for the points that disunite us, we’re going to be paralyzed and we’re not going to be able to move forward.”
“Within the Catholic Church these crimes have been committed, these abominable situations. We have said it for a long time, we have condemned all these kinds of abuses and as an institution that is part of the church we are doing it,” said the rector of the PUC.
“We are not unchecking what has happened, but we are saying that the Catholic University, which is part of the Catholic Church, has to command and lead from the Church’s point of view a common outlet with other institutions of society,” he emphasized.

Original source in Spanish