The purge of the church

Something Unusual Pope Francis, overwhelmed by the wave of pedophile denunciations and badual abuse of Catholic priests, called last week at the church summit to Vatican.

The Presidents of Episcopal Conferences around the world took part in this call. Testimony was heard by several victims of badual abuse. They were worried. They tore their clothes. However, the results of this meeting are discouraging, insufficient and unconvincing.

This gives the impression that it was an act of washing the face of the Church before world public opinion. Nothing more. I argue that, in addition to the abuses committed by priests, the greatest sin is borne by church leaders for its weak response to badual abuse and systematic concealment that it maintains. for decades.

Systematic concealment not only of cases of pedophilia. There are also homobadual priests who, taking advantage of their rank, forced lower-level religious to have badual relations and even badual violence against nuns, who in many cases were led to abort after becoming pregnant. Terrible but true.

Pope Francis, after his recent visit to the United Arab Emirates, has ratified what I just said: "It is true, within the Church, there have been priests and bishops who have been there. have done, and I think that's always done. "

And the criticism does not come only from the outside but also from the inside. The spokesperson of the International Union of the Superiors General (UISG), speaking on behalf of her organization, which brings together more than one million religious, expressed a few days ago her " deep sadness and indignation at the forms of abuse (work, badual and badual violence) ". bad) prevalent in the Church ".

Although the appointment last week at the Vatican is not of great importance, as there was no obligation to transfer cases of badual abuse to ordinary courts. or order the immediate expulsion of religious who have mistreated minors, The lack of concrete can only be attributed to Pope Francis alone. I would say that the pontiff is practically alone. There is a power dome in the Church and in the Vatican that wants things to remain intact. This is why Francisco was not able to progress in the four areas that had been defined at the beginning of his term: finance, curia reform, communication and the fight against pedophilia.

For the Italian theologian Marinella Peroni, "the real problem in the Church is that of men and not women.It is the role of men who makes water." However, in addition to ratifying this which was said by Peroni, I believe that the underlying problem lies in the conflicts of power and interests of the hierarchy of the Church. As long as it is not touched, everything will remain the same. The purge of the Church are mere appearances.