Pope Francis: 'No effort must be spared' to tackle Catholic Church's abuses

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Chico Harlan, Bureau chief
August 20 at 8:51 AM

DUBLIN — Pope Francis said in a letter released Monday by the Vatican that the Catholic Church has not dealt properly with “crimes” against children and needs to prevent sexual abuses from being “covered up and perpetuated.”

“We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them,” Francis wrote.

The 2,000-word letter addressed to the “People of God” marks one of Francis’s most direct attempts to address the painful abuse cases that have eroded the Roman Catholic Church’s credibility and prompted sharp calls from inside and outside the church for improved accountability.

Francis did not lay out any concrete steps the Vatican would take, but he acknowledged that systemic change is needed.

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[rurallib]

1. The Catholic Church is a huge business; bad publicity is bad for business

so they need to stop the bad publicity

[2naSalit]

2. Good luck with that.

[True Blue American]

3. Much too late

For the Church to have any credibility at all. How many times have they promised the same thing?

The Leaders are about power and money just like Evangelicals who support Trump and people like Roy Moore.

[snacker]

4. Exactly!

[olegramps]

6. When are people, from every religion, awaken to the fact they are being taken by charlatans.

[True Blue American]

11. I left one Church

Last year because of the hate political talk coming from the Pastor. Telling me who I should vote against, then comparing Trump to Winston Churchill.

Where I am now the Pastors are doing a wonderful job of keeping the Sermons on following Christ.

But 3 times now I have been at the receiving end of a Right Wing rant. Against Hillary, black people,etc.

Not sure how much longer I can go on.

[Just Carl]

5. Go out of the church business.

No point in trying to push fiction about some invisible sky deity when science has proven them wrong over and over again.

[Pisces]

7. Easy you're in charge. Open up your secret vault of pedo files and let the chips fall where they may

That will mean all of the Cardinals and all of the Bishops, as well as the Pope would have to step down as every single one of them has known pedo priests and kept the secrets. This situation is in every city, every state, and every country this religion has diocese. Good. Luck. The Church will die out because Catholic mothers are no longer taking their children to Church or raising them Catholic. Count me as one of those. Without the mothers the Church will die or reform.

[True Blue American]

12. The Pope came from one of the areas that were exposed.

[ancianita]

8. The pope has no choice but to take this stance. With "no concrete steps" he perpetuates passivity.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Glad to hear you're cooperating, Your Holiness.

Now turn around and put your hands behind your back.

[shanny]

10. the 1000-yr-old policy of celibacy

(originally put in place to safeguard the church's property) needs to end now. you can start there, Francis.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. It's an organized crime gang. "You wouldn't want something to happen to your afterlife?" . . . nt

[niyad]

14. hey, pope photo op, how long have you been in office? what,exactly, have you done so far

about this/

oh, and when are you ever going to say anything about the magdalene laundries?

[Doitnow]

15. So when are you going to start????? I'm 83 and I can still hear my

7th grade teacher say, as she'd shake a finger, "The world doesn't want excuses. It wants things done."