Pope Leo XIV says there should be no tolerance for abuse of any kind in Catholic Church
Lima, Peru (AP) – Pope Leo XIV He said that any abuse in the Catholic Church – sexual, spiritual or abuse of authority – should not be tolerance and called for “transparent processes” to create a culture of prevention in the church.
Leo made his first public interpretations about the sex abuse scandal of the clergy, in a Peru -based Catholic movement, in a written message to a peruyal journalist who documented a particularly terrible abuse and financial corruption case in Sodalitium Christiae Vitae.
The message was read loudly in Lima on Friday night. Sodaliteum scandal And the work of journalist Paola Ugaz.
“A culture of prevention that does not tolerate any abuse in the entire church – the abuse of power or authority nor conscience, spiritual or sexual abuse is urgent,” he said. “This culture will only be authentic if it arises only from active wakefulness, transparent processes and those who have been hurt. We need journalists for this.”
Leo is aware of the sodalitium scandal because the twenty years spent a missionary priest and bishop in Peru, where he was founded in 1971. He was responsible for listening to the victims of the Peruvian Bishops for the victims of Sodalitium’s victims, and helped some financial settlements with the organization.
After Pope Francis brought him to the Vatican in 2023, Prevost helped the group dismantling by controlling the resignation of a strong sodaliteum bishop. Sodalitium Officially suppressed Earlier this year, just before Francis died.
Now, as a Pope, Leo should control the dismantling of the solveium and its large assets. The Vatican ambassador Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, who handled the job, read Leo’s message on Friday night and appeared on the stage with Ugaz.
In the message in Leo Journalists praised for their courage In order to have a strong account, he demanded the protection of public authorities to protect them and said that a free press was ız an indispensable common goods ”.
Ugaz and a sodalitium victim Pedro Salinas faced crimes and civil cases from sodalitium and supporters for the group’s bent practices and investigation reports on financial abuse and civil cases. Praised Leo To handle the case.
The abuse scandal is one of the most prickly files facing Leo, considering the demands of survivors that he has gone even further than Francis to apply zero to tolerance for abuse in the church. Including victims of adults.
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