The pedophilia scandals that rocked the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church is hit by a wave of scandals Pedophilia, like that of Australian Cardinal George Pell, number three of the Vatican, convicted badual abuse of two minors.

The Vatican last week organized an unprecedented summit on pedophilia, after which Pope Francis promised "a fight at all levels" against badual abuse by the clergy.

Pope Francis expelled the priesthood in February Former American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 88, accused of badual abuse almost half a century ago. It was the first time that a cardinal was reduced to the lay state for these reasons.

In August, an investigation by the Pennsylvania Prosecutor's Office badual violence discovered by more than 300 "predatory cures" and its concealment by the Catholic Church in that state, where fewer than 1,000 children were victims of these acts.

In the 2000s, according to a Boston Globe newspaper survey, the hierarchy of the diocese of Boston and especially the Exarzobispo Bernard Law, systematically covered with badual abuse committed by some 90 priests for decades. Law, a refugee in the Vatican after his resignation in 2002, died in 2017.

The American Catholic Church received between 1950 and 2013 According to the website bishop-accountability.org, some 17,000 victims of abuse by some 6,400 clergy have reportedly been victims of crime.

In Chile, there is currently Investigations opened on 167 people, including seven bishops and 96 priests and other laity related to the Church, for badual badault against minors and adults since the 1960s.

The number of victims of these cases rose to 178 of which 79 were minors when the events happened.

During his trip to Chile in January 2018, Pope Francisco defended Bishop Juan Barros, accused of covering for decades the priest Fernando Karadima, condemned by badual exploitation of minors in the 1980s and 1990s.

Then, in May, he retired and invited Rome to a few victims and summoned all the Chilean bishops, who submitted his resignation en bloc after his meeting with Francisco. The pope accepted the resignation of seven of them, including the Juan Barros

A court in Melbourne has declared Cardinal George Pell, 77, guilty badual badault and four indecent acts against two boys of the altar aged 12 and 13 years years in which the events occurred in the 1990s.

The court delivered its verdict on December 11 but It was not disclosed until Tuesday for legal reasons.

The sentence has not yet been fixed the cardinal must purge himself.

July 30, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, sentenced to one year in prison for concealing the crimes committed by the priest Jim Fletcher in the 1970s in the state of New South Wales.

Since 2010, hundreds of cases of Sexual abuse by minors in religious institutions, including the prestigious Canisio School in Berlin.

On July 18, 2017, a report revealed that at least 547 children of the choir of Regensburg cathedral suffer abuse, including violations, between [1945etdébutdesannées1990[1945etdébutdesannées1990

In September 2018, another research paper revealed that at least 3,677 children, mostly under 13, was badually abused between 1946 and 2014 by 1670 religious. Most of these facts went unpunished.

In the 2000s, accusations of badual abuse inflicted for decades on 14,500 children staggered the church. Several bishops and priests, accused of hiding them, They were punished.

During his trip to Ireland in August 2018, the pope met a victim of Catholic priest Tony Walsh, who abused children for two decades before being expelled from priesthood and imprisoned.

March 7, a court will rule at trial against the cardinal Philippe Barbarin and five former members of the Diocese of Lyon (center-east), accused of not having reported badual abuse on minors presumed committed by priest Bernard Preynat against 70 younger scouts between 1986 and 1991.

This scandal is at the heart of the film "Grace to God" French director François OzonGrand Jury Prize at the last Berlin Film Festival.