"Anti-Pedophilia Summit": The Vatican prepares to face the "monster of abuse"

The Vatican is preparing to "confront the monster" of pedophilia and to ensure that the Church "returns to a safe place" after the anti-abuse summit that will be held from Thursday to Sunday and focused on "the responsibility , responsibility and transparency ". "It takes every effort to look at this monster of abuse in the face if we want to defeat it," said Papal Spokesperson Alessandro Gisotti during the presentation of the summit, which will be attended by presidents and delegates of the conferences. episcopal world to deal with the crisis of pedophilia in the Church.

Pope Francis will be present throughout the meeting and will close the summit with a Mbad on Sunday, January 24, said his spokesman. The meeting will also include the presence of the head of the Argentine Church, Bishop Oscar Ojea, among the representatives of the world.

The historic summit will be held after the 2018 Abuse Crisis as a result of the accumulation of pedophile cases accumulated by clergy in Chile, the United States, Australia and other countries. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, a member of the Dicastery responsible for judging pedophilia, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, today underlined the central points on which the meeting will be held. "The first day will be dedicated to accountability, the second to accountability and the third to transparency," said Scicluna, a tax expert on pedophilia at the Vatican. "These are values ​​of good government when you want to prevent and protect children so that the church is where it should be safe," Scicluna added.

The former spokesman of the pope between 2006 and 2016, Federico Lombardi, who will officiate as moderator during the activity, also confirmed that the meeting would begin at 9 am local Thursday (at 5 o'clock in the afternoon). Argentina), with a prayer and a "brief introduction". Francisco Lombardi explained that there would be "190 participants in the clbadroom", including 114 presidents of bishops' conferences and 12 religious.The first day, participants will see a video with the testimonies of victims of violence before starting work in the new clbadroom of the Synod, which is part of the Paul VI clbadroom, where work will take place from Thursday to Sunday, Lombardi added.

Presenting the meeting to accredited media, among which Telam, Scicluna lamented that in the Church, "the primitive reaction" to abuse is a "complicity, a code of silence". "We need to get out of this, so the third day of the meeting will be dedicated to transparency, we must face the facts, we must not give in to the protection of our young people and our minors," he said. he's complaining.

The organizing committee of the summit will meet before the start of work with groups of victims who will be present in Rome during the meeting, although these meetings do not include the pontiff. "We asked the participants to listen to the victims before coming in. It is very important that we all keep in our hearts the suffering of the victims of abuse," added Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago and member of the committee.