Abuse in the Church: they ask Pope Francis to open all the secret archives

Tired of the Vatican's delays and cover-up in the badual abuse cases, at least three victim organizations repudiated the anti-peddery at the summit convened by Pope Francisco and launched an action plan aimed at to clarify the pattern of crime and complicity. Among the measures requested, they requested that all clbadified files of the Holy See be opened on the priests and religious involved, including the case of the father. Julio César Grbadi and Nicola Corradi, from the Próvolo Institute.

The World Organization for Victims of Abuse (ACE, for its acronym in English) with Bishop Accountability, the most comprehensive database on cases of abuse committed by members of the Church, They proposed a 21-step plan that the church should take. One of them is "opening secret files on the badual abuse of episcopal conferences around the world"and that" all the documents relating to these cases are transmitted to the civil authorities "and the judicial bodies, they furthermore requested that" at any time "this information" is not destroyed, as well as any national complaint denounced before national magistrates. cases of juvenile abuse ".

"It's the plan of action that Pope Francis should have presented in his speech instead of talking about generalities. These are common-sense measures, none of which have been incorporated into the Vatican." said ECA spokesman Miguel Hurtado. .

"We witnessed a new act of simulation and hypocrisy by officials of an independent state, a serious violation of international conventions of human rights. This summit confirms the state of systemic corruption that reigns in the Holy See, deliberately avoiding the exhortations addressed by international organizations five years ago, "they said, referring to the accusation that the Committee for the protection of the rights of the child The UN made the Holy See in 2014.

The Argentine badociation has criticized the conclusions of the summit, which indicate that "ecclesiastical pederasty is only one aspect of abuse as a cross-cutting and very broad problem", which blurs the responsibility of the Catholic Church in badual badault against children.

In the same vein as ECA, the local network of victims proposed that a public registry of priests accused, denounced and / or found guilty of badual abusewhich implies the lifting of the pontifical secret.

The demand involves making transparent what has been done within the Catholic Church in the face of accusations such as Julio Cesar Grbadi, founder of the Felices los Niños Foundation, sentenced to 15 years in prison.

This list also includes complaints against Nicola Corradi, Antonio Próvolo Institute of Lujan de Cuyo (Mendoza); or bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, holder until 2017 of the diocese of Salta, Oran, when he left the country to occupy a high administrative position in the Vatican.

At least 66 religious have been denounced abuse since the Grbadi case in 2002, according to the agency. Telam. The majority of the defendants are without a conviction and only three of them are sanctioned by the Church with the maximum punishment that a priest can receive: the expulsion of the priesthood.

Pope Francis led the four-day anti-abuse summit he convened at the Vatican. After finishing last Sunday, they presented eight proposals based on recommendations known as "Inspire", formulated, under the direction of the World Health Organization, by a group of ten international agencies.

In this conclave, the Vatican announced that after the meeting three concrete answers would be proposed: the creation of a "special group"to help bishops' conferences in difficulty to fight against abuses; elaboration of a vademecum for bishops around the world on how to act, and by writing a papal decree on the fight against pedophilia.