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Pope Francis removed from his circle of close advisers Cardinal George Pell, accused of badual badault on minors in Australia, and Chilean Francisco Javier Errázuriz, suspected of hiding the actions of a pedophile priest at Chile, announced on
The two senior ecclesiastical officials are members of a council of nine cardinals from all continents, called C9, who advises Pope Francis on the reform of the administration of the Holy See .
The pope wrote to the cardinals who will leave the council to thank them for "the work they have done for five years," Vatican Press Counselor Greg Burke said Wednesday.
a long-awaited summit on the "protection of minors" organized by the Pope from 21 to 24 February, attended by presidents of episcopal conferences worldwide, but also victims of badual abuse committed by religious. A challenge, while some bishops of Asia and Africa say they are not involved in a "Western" problem.
Sexual abuse scandals perpetrated or concealed by the clergy have led the Catholic Church to an unprecedented crisis in Europe, the United States, Chile and Australia.
"The February meeting will not solve all the problems, because the world is too diverse in the Church, the Pan American bishops opts for radical measures, while Africans do not want to imposes, "said a source close to the pope, trying to mitigate expectations.
" The omertá "(law of silence) has been our culture for too long.The meeting in February should mark a new beginning on the responsibility of the bishops, and even on a new instrument of control, "he said.
Whatever the difficulties encountered in "tuning the violins" of a contrasting church, we are waiting for it now. that the Argentine pope maintain his intransigence up to the top of the Church.
The pope temporarily separates Pell 18 months ago to defend himself in the Australian court. Until now, the cardinal has not returned to Rome.
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Pell, 77, remains officially at the head of the Secretariat for the Economy created by Pope Francisco to order the five-year term ends in principle at the end of the month of February.
To respect the presumption of innocence, the pope has not up to now, as some consultants have asked, appointed a new financial officer, although this week a high the head of the curia (Vatican government) declared that the expenses of the Holy See increased in an "unacceptable" way.
This Wednesday, precisely because of the meeting of the "C9", without the German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, coordinator of a Council of Economy, explained that the Holy See was in financial crisis, mainly because of personnel costs, suggesting using the resources of early retirement [19659002] The second, Chilean cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz, also lost his place in C9. In Chile, he is accused by victims of badual badault of having concealed the acts of a pedophile priest, a scandalous case for the country.
Some observers have indicated that Errázuriz was badly counseled by Francisco, taking the Pope to defend a Chilean cardinal, implicated in the badual abuse scandal, a defense that greatly complicated the pontiff's trip to Chile in January 2018. [19659004] After a meeting at the Vatican with Francis, Cardinal Errazuriz announced in November that he was retiring from the C9. ] "This is not a renunciation.
The archbishop emeritus of Santiago is 85.
In addition, another cardinal, the Congolese Lawrence Monsengwo, member of the Congregation for the 39th. Evangelization of Peoples,
He is an important figure in the African Catholic Church who played a key political role in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he has just given up his post as Archbishop of Kinshasa to the Age 79.
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