(Tasnim) – After a damning study revealed hundreds of thousands of adolescents had been exploited, Pope Francis expressed shame on behalf of himself and the Roman Catholic Church over the enormity of sexual abuse committed against children in France.
Speaking on Wednesday, the Pontiff said “it was a moment of shame” for the Church after a 2,500-page missive issued by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) unveiled large-scale negligence, silence and cover-ups by clergymen against juniors since the 1950s.
The 84-year-old Pope also shared his own regrets: “It is also my shame, our shame, my shame, for the incapacity of the Church for too long to put them at the center of its concerns,” and expressed his “sadness and pain for the trauma that they suffered,” RT reported.
Pope Francis implored French bishops and high-up clergymen “to continue to make every effort so that similar tragedies will not be repeated.”
His remarks at the weekly General Audience came in the wake of the independent inquiry’s findings that the French clergy abused over 200,000 children.
The number, however, could even be as high as 330,000, when also considering abuse by lay members.
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Tras la revelación de un informe detallado sobre los abusos sexuales cometidos por la Iglesia católica francesa durante décadas, el Sumo Pontífice expresó sus condolencias a las víctimas. También mostró su vergüenza por una Iglesia incapaz de poner a los niños en el centro de las preocupaciones.
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