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Eugene

(61,937 posts) Mon Jan 28, 2019, 10:31 AM Jan 2019

Pope says Vatican abuse summit will not end crisis

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS JANUARY 28, 2019 / 7:38 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Pope says Vatican abuse summit will not end crisis

Philip Pullella
3 MIN READ

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned on Sunday against excessive expectations for next month’s Vatican summit on the global sexual abuse crisis, saying it was human problem that would continue.

Francis has summoned the presidents of all of the world’s national bishops conferences to the Vatican Feb. 21-24.

The meeting offers a chance for him to respond to criticism from victims of abuse who say he has mishandled the crisis and not done enough to make bishops accountable for covering it up.

But the pope said the highly anticipated meeting would not end the problem.

“The preparatory work is going well but I permit myself to say that I have perceived that there is an inflated expectation,” he told reporters on a plane returning from Panama.

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Pope says Vatican abuse summit will not end crisis (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2019 OP

The crisis will end when enough Catholics vote with their feet Major Nikon Jan 2019 #1

The crisis cannot end until the RCC changes. trotsky Jan 2019 #2

Hmmmm Lordquinton Jan 2019 #3

I don't think anyone has ever said the RCC could stop all child abuse, even that by their priests. trotsky Jan 2019 #4

It's simply horrifying that they can't even grasp the problem. Pope George Ringo II Jan 2019 #5

It's not about stopping all abuse everywhere Lordquinton Jan 2019 #9

But whatabout those Chinese atheists? Major Nikon Jan 2019 #7

The worst part of that is how it diminishes the problem Lordquinton Jan 2019 #8

Uh... Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #6

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

1. The crisis will end when enough Catholics vote with their feet

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 10:40 AM

Jan 2019

...and not before.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

2. The crisis cannot end until the RCC changes.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 11:35 AM

Jan 2019

And they won't change.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)

3. Hmmmm

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 05:41 PM

Jan 2019

Pope Francis warned on Sunday against excessive expectations for next month’s Vatican summit on the global sexual abuse crisis, saying it was human problem that would continue.

Sounds familiar, maybe they are all singing from the same book?

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

4. I don't think anyone has ever said the RCC could stop all child abuse, even that by their priests.

Reply to Lordquinton (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 05:55 PM

Jan 2019

But what they CAN stop doing is covering it up and protecting the abusers, which is all the survivors want.

That shifting of the discussion is a desperate tactic by someone who has lost the argument a long time ago. Harmony indeed.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)

5. It's simply horrifying that they can't even grasp the problem.

Reply to trotsky (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 06:44 PM

Jan 2019

Nobody is any more annoyed with them for hiring some child molesters than we would be with GM, or the Post Office, or any other large employer. The part which disgusts so many of us is the cover up by the organization. Forget Watergate, the RCC is the best example we'll ever have that it's not the crime, it's the cover up.

That's the moral failure they'll never, ever outrun.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)

9. It's not about stopping all abuse everywhere

Reply to trotsky (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:33 PM

Jan 2019

It's about holding accountable those who not only perpetrated it, but those who enabled it.

But their privilege is tied to the RCC's privilege, if we do anything that seems like infringing on their structure, even if it's to punish crimes, it undermines their own system.

But China...