Pope Francis recognizes that priests and bishops have sexually abused nuns

Pope Francis on Tuesday acknowledged the violence committed by priests and bishops against some nuns and said that he was working on finding solutions to this "far-off" situation.

At the press conference aboard the plane that brought him back from his trip to the UAE, the pope acknowledged the existence of the problem.

"It is true, it is a problem (…) Within the Church, clerics have done (…) There have been priests and also bishops who did, "said Francisco about denunciations of abuses by some religious, according to the Vatican information service," Vatican News. "

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The women's supplement of the Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano" dedicated its February issue to the case of badual abuse and power to the religious and its director, Lucetta Scaraffia, asked the church to do not ignore this situation of oppression against women.

The pontiff also said that this problem was still topical: "I think this is always done, it is not that it ends when you realize it.

Francisco lamented that, in general, "the mistreatment of women is a problem" and that "humanity has not yet matured" and that the woman is still considered "second clbad" and, in some countries, happens to "feminicide".

On the problem of abuse, the pope has advanced and works "for a long time" in search of solutions, with the suspension and expulsion of some religious and a religious congregation "closely linked to this phenomenon".

"Do we have to do something else?" Yes, we have the will. Yes, but it's a path that comes from far away, "he said.

"Pope Benedict had the courage to close a female congregation that had a certain level, because he had entered into this slavery, even badual, on the part of the clerk or the founder, and sometimes the founder deprives the nuns of their freedom. get to that, "he said.

Francisco lamented that "floklore" often presents Ratzinger as "weak" but he badured that it is not so: "It's a good man, a piece of bread is worse than him, but that's Is a strong man ".

He concluded by saying that he wanted to continue to fight religious abuse: "I want to go ahead, there are cases, we are working," he said.