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Pope on abuses by priests: Spare no effort to bring them to justice | | Feb 24, 2019
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis opened a historic four-day summit conference of
190 leaders of bishops conferences and religious orders.at Vatican on sex abuse
and presented before the gathering 21 proposals on how to prevent such evils,
to punish predators and to keep children safe, last Thursday.
The pope asked to “spare no effort” to bring abusers to justice.
At the summit, five videotaped testimonies from victims about their abuse were
presented. One woman from Africa disclosed that a priest raped her repeatedly
since age 15 and forced her to have three abortions over the following 13 years.
A little before the Vatican summit opened, activists in Poland pulled down
a statue of a priest accused of sexual abuses.
Francis, the first Latin American pope, called the summit after he himself
botched a well-known sex abuse cover-up case in Chile last year and the scandal
reignited in the U.S.
More than 30 years after the scandal first erupted in Ireland and Australia,
and 20 years after it hit the U.S., bishops and Catholic officials in many parts
of Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia still either deny that clergy sex
abuse exists in their regions or play down the problem, the Monitor wrote.
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