The Vatican begins to meet victims of sexual abuse

VATICAN CITY, Italy.- Victims of badual abuse of Catholic clergy to attend Vatican meeting in order to demand a true "zero tolerance" towards abusers and their accessories and deal with a "global problem".

Pope Francis receives from February 21st to Sunday the Vatican the presidents of all the episcopal conferences of the world, in an indita summons on pedophilia, a scourge that rocked the church over the past yearand it affected thousands of people.

The denunciation and dissemination of thousands of cases of badual abuse of minors by clergy in various parts of the world and accusations against the Church of not having done enough to cope In 2018 they placed the pontiff at a crossroads facing one of the most serious crises of the institution.

Among the participants, the American Peter Isely, victim of a premature child and founder of a network of victims, encourages the pope to promote a policy of "zero tolerance" against any clergy or religious order who committed these "crimes". "

For the organizing committee, Francisco chose the Archbishop of Chicago, United States, Blase J. Cupich; Archbishop of Bombay, Cardinal Oswald Thank you already to two personalities who have been characterized by their fight against abuses: the newly appointed deputy secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the malts Charles Scicluna and the President of the Center for the Protection of minors of the Pontifical Gregorian University and member of the Commission for the Guardianship of Minors, Hans Zollner.

"The first step must be to become aware of the truth about what happened." This is why we call on all Presidents of the Episcopal Conference to approach and visit the victims who have been abused by the clergy in their respective countries before the Rome meeting. and learn for themselves the sufferings they have suffered, wrote the members of the organizing committee chosen by Pope Francis in a letter.