The Argentine Catholic Church is sincere: "We must acknowledge our sins"

The president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA)monseor Oscar Ojea, I noticed that the Catholic Church Our country is committed to eliminating "abusive situations" within the institution and "going down the path of purification".

At his opening homily of the 117th Plenary Assembly of the Argentine Episcopate bringing together bishops from all over the national territory in the Pilar Province in Buenos Aires, the Bishop of San Isidro also pointed out that "It is necessary to carry out a thorough examination of the conscience and to recognize our sins".

Ojea shared the experience with his colleagues of his recent participation in a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, during which presidents of episcopal conferences from around the world badyzed with the Sovereign Pontiff the serious problem of badual abuse that shakes the bad of the Church.

"The holiness of which the book of Leviticus speaks is concretized and visible in the love of the brothers, especially the most vulnerable: hungry, sad, sick, prisoners … The brothers and sisters of the existential peripheries to which we are called to take special precautions, many of them, small and small, who should have been cared for and protected, they have been cruelly abused in situations of abuse within the Church that we are committed to today to eradicatehe affirmed.

He added: "The meeting on the protection of minors in the Church has put us in front of the sin and drama of abuse, badual abuse which is also an abuse of conscience and who always start with an abuse of power. The Holy Father and the whole Church have urged us to give a radical solution to these situations. "

"Do not conceal a complaint that deserves an investigation to protect minors and vulnerable adults." It is important, essential and urgent, but that is not enough, we are called to go further. training structures that allowed some clrigos to create a sense of superiority and domination over the faithful and who facilitated the fact that they lived as if they were not accountable to anyone for their actions, in a situation of real impunity", concluded Ojea.