From Thursday to Sunday, the Vatican analyzes pedophilia within the Church

(ANSA) – The plague of pedophilia it represents "an urgent challenge of our time" and imposes an "act of strong pastoral responsibility". And it is with this key and for this purpose that the Pope convenes a responsible summit of episcopal conferences around the world on the theme of the protection of minors against badual abuse in the church.

Starting next Thursday, they will gather at the Vatican to address the issue, a record today during the Angelus. "I invite you to pray for this meeting, which I wanted as an act of pastoral responsibility in the face of an urgent challenge of our time," said Francisco from the balcony of the apostolic palace, in front of the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square.

The pontiff wanted to give a strong signal in this sense, in the meantime, with the unapologetic decision taken against the former Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, reduced to the lay state after the Congress of the Congregation for the doctrine of faith. I found guilty of abusing a 16 year old altar boy. The facts date back to 1971 and have emerged in all their severity. Last year, McCarrick had dismissed the prosecution and then resigned from the College of Cardinals.

On his case, which caused an earthquake among the faithful of the United States, as well as other similar scandals, such as that of Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, who died in 2017 and accused of having covered many abuses, the book of French sociologist Frederic Martel returns, "Sodom"

The copy, announced as a "bomb", translated into eight languages, will be published Thursday in twenty countries, on the occasion of the opening of the summit of pedophilia in the Vatican. And we hear from Bishop Carlo Maria Vigan, the former nuncio of the United States, about his accusations against McCarrick, his relations with several seminarians who, although they are of legal age, were hierarchically in a position of enslavement. .

From Paris, a new case casts a deep shadow: the prosecutor opens an investigation into the Apostolic Nuncio in France, Msgr. Luigi Ventura, for "badual badault", apparently against an employee of the common Paris. The words of the pope, in the Angelus, on "pastoral responsibility", constitute then a call and a precise request.