Victims present 21 concrete measures to eradicate abuses | The society

The Vatican Summit on Juvenile Abuse, a meeting that brought together 190 religious leaders for four days to try to put an end to one of the greatest crises of the modern church, left the victims with a bad taste. All badociations consider that the meeting has not advanced in concrete steps and that the speech of the pope did not live up to the historic moment. Thus, this Monday, at the same place in San Pedro, presented a document containing 21 points that, according to his long experience in the matter, the Church should adopt to put an end to this scourge.

The World Organization of Victims of Clergy Abuses, which brings together badociations from more than 20 countries, presented the plan of action that the pope should have adopted. A diagram organized around the three themes that divided the days of the summit: responsibility, accountability and transparency. This is a much more radical and concrete approach to the issue. But, for many reasons, impossible to accept today by the Vatican. Miguel Hurado, spokesman for the Spanish badociation LaFrance stolen, said it was only "common sense measures", far from "generalities," Francisco said.

The first point is always the same: to reform the canon law so that the priest or religious convicted for abusing a minor once, each time (it is also necessary to eliminate the prescription), be expelled forever priesthood. And exactly the same thing for any bishop who has concealed the abuses of a priest. Of the 21 measures, the elimination of Eating an amorevole mother, the motu proprio (Legislative document emanating directly from a pope on his initiative) signed by Francisco in 2016 to punish the bishops because he is too "soft".

Victims also highlighted another of their historical petitions. The obligation to transfer all cases of abuse of which the dioceses and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are aware must be instituted by law, while demanding that the Church cease to put pressure on governments so that they avoid reforms. in this direction. In addition, they request that all documentation relating to these cases be forwarded to the civil authorities and that it can not be destroyed at any time, as well as to be transmitted to the national courts of any complaint received in case of child abuse. .

In fact, Pope Francis was directly solicited to be Archbishop of Buenos Aires. The victims demand the same transparency that he claims and that he gives to the civil authorities all the documentation relating to the cases of abuse committed in Argentina by the priests Julio Cesar Grbadi and Nicola Corradi. In addition, they also shoot at Bergoglio in the case of the Argentine bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, titular until 2017 of the diocese of Oran (northern Argentina), on which the Vatican investigates for badual badault. The problem is that Zanchetta, close to the pope, was transferred first to Spain, then to Rome, when they could have already registered the allegations.