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Pope calls for effective measures against sexual abuse in church
22-2-2019
Pope Francis called on Thursday for taking concrete and effective measures to confront the issue of sexual abuse in the Church. Francis was speaking during the opening of the historic Vatican summit in front of 114 Catholic Church leaders and Vatican bishops who have descended on Rome to discuss clerical sexual abuse. Francis said that God’s people are looking onto us and are not expecting the same predictable condemnation, but tangible measures to curb the phenomenon. The Pope called on participants to listen to the cry of the meek who plead for justice against unabated sexual abuse by clerics against minors. During the 4-day meeting, Pope Francis will seek to convince heads of the Catholic Church around the world of their individual and personal responsibilities towards these assaults, hoping to awaken the clerical conscience in a collective educational approach, combined of speeches, sermons and small language working groups. (Al Mustaqbal, February 22, 2019)
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