Vatican celebrates summit on abuses after long silence | Catholic Church | Pope Francisco | World

The dad Francisco It will bring together church leaders from around the world this week to inform them about the treatment of clergy badual abuse cases.

Many leaders of the Catholic Church they continue to protect the reputation of the institution by denying that priests have raped minors and discrediting the victims, and the pontiff himself admits to having made similar mistakes.

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But Francisco It has changed attitude and will bring the rest of the ecclesiastical hierarchy together at an extraordinary summit that will begin Thursday.

The meeting will bring together about 190 presidents of episcopal conferences and religious orders, who will attend lectures and workshops of Vatican offices on the prevention of badual abuse in their churches, badistance to victims and investigations. complaints.

The survivors will meet the summit organizers and the bishops themselves before the event.

AP Agency