Pope Francis: 'No effort must be spared' to tackle Catholic Church's abuses
Source: The Washington Post
By Chico Harlan, Bureau chief
August 20 at 8:51 AM
DUBLIN Pope Francis said in a letter released Monday by the Vatican that the Catholic Church has not dealt properly with crimes against children and needs to prevent sexual abuses from being covered up and perpetuated.
We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them, Francis wrote.
The 2,000-word letter addressed to the People of God marks one of Franciss most direct attempts to address the painful abuse cases that have eroded the Roman Catholic Churchs credibility and prompted sharp calls from inside and outside the church for improved accountability.
Francis did not lay out any concrete steps the Vatican would take, but he acknowledged that systemic change is needed.
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rurallib
(62,420 posts)so they need to stop the bad publicity
2naSalit
(86,643 posts)True Blue American
(17,985 posts)For the Church to have any credibility at all. How many times have they promised the same thing?
The Leaders are about power and money just like Evangelicals who support Trump and people like Roy Moore.
snacker
(3,619 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)True Blue American
(17,985 posts)Last year because of the hate political talk coming from the Pastor. Telling me who I should vote against, then comparing Trump to Winston Churchill.
Where I am now the Pastors are doing a wonderful job of keeping the Sermons on following Christ.
But 3 times now I have been at the receiving end of a Right Wing rant. Against Hillary, black people,etc.
Not sure how much longer I can go on.
Just Carl
(26 posts)No point in trying to push fiction about some invisible sky deity when science has proven them wrong over and over again.
Pisces
(5,599 posts)That will mean all of the Cardinals and all of the Bishops, as well as the Pope would have to step down as every single one of them has known pedo priests and kept the secrets. This situation is in every city, every state, and every country this religion has diocese. Good. Luck. The Church will die out because Catholic mothers are no longer taking their children to Church or raising them Catholic. Count me as one of those. Without the mothers the Church will die or reform.
True Blue American
(17,985 posts)ancianita
(36,060 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)Now turn around and put your hands behind your back.
shanny
(6,709 posts)(originally put in place to safeguard the church's property) needs to end now. you can start there, Francis.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)niyad
(113,325 posts)about this/
oh, and when are you ever going to say anything about the magdalene laundries?
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)7th grade teacher say, as she'd shake a finger, "The world doesn't want excuses. It wants things done."