"Francisco is the leader of the Catholic Church and he must face this legacy"

Sergio Rubin, journalist specializing in Vatican issues, gave details of the Summit on cases of abuse committed by priests. The summit started this morning with a very strong video with the testimony of victims of abuse, "informed.

According to Rubin, the context of this meeting has been going on for some time. "The pope and his advisers understood last year that they needed to create more awareness, to deal with this phenomenon and to have more rules," he said. This call includes the presidents of the 120 Episcopal Conferences around the world.

Pope Francis takes seriously the cases of pedophilia and badual abuse in the religious field. The consequences are serious for those who commit this type of crime: the Code of Canon Law has been amended to indicate that a bishop's failure to comply with such complaints that are not properly dealt with may be grounds for 39, expulsion. task.

According to the journalist, the summit will present a series of cases prior to the pontificate of the Pope and even that of Benedict, adding that the responsibility of the representative of the faithful is important. Francisco is the leader of the Catholic Church and he must face this legacy, he said.

Since the publication of Frderic Martel's book Sodoma, the discussion on the large number of homobadual clergy has been opened. Regarding the subject, Sergio Rubin made some distinctions: we have to separate two things. One is homobaduality within the Church and the other is the book of this man. The facts indicate that there are members of the homobadual clergy. Papal regulations state that anyone with a homobadual orientation can not enter the seminary. But the reporter did not insist so much: if celibacy is not respected, there is another issue that lacks the standard of celibacy, no matter whether it is homobadual or heterobadual.

At the end of the interview with Maana Sylvester, I mentioned the issues relating to the Sodom book. Rubin says that he does not get a lot of credibility, it's seen as something more commercial "and admitted that" you can not say that the homobadual is a pervert who abuses minors ".