“I got pregnant three times and he made me have an abortion three times, quite simply because he did not want to use condoms or contraceptives.” “This lasted for 13 years,” the woman said. One woman, who was not named, spoke of a priest who began sexually abusing her when she was 15. Related: Vatican faces growing list of scandals ahead of historic summit ‘A life destroyed’: Survivors speakĪfter the Pope spoke, he and the assembled church leaders watched harrowing video testimonies from several victims of clergy sexual abuse. The four-day summit, convened by the Pope last September, will include two speeches by Francis, talks outlining best practices, small group discussions among bishops and a penitential ceremony involving abuse survivors. The Pope then said that he had made a list of guidelines from bishops’ conferences around the world to hand out to the assembly for them to reflect upon.įor the first time in Catholic history, the almost 200 global church leaders are gathering at the Vatican to address the crisis. “The holy people of God are looking at us and expect from us not simple condemnation,” Francis continued, “but concrete and effective measure to put in place. “In the face of this scourge of sexual abuse perpetrated by men of the church to the detriment of minors, I thought I would summon you,” the Pope told the nearly 200 Catholic leaders gathered in Vatican City, “so that all together we may lend an ear and listen to the Holy Spirit … and to the cry of the small who are asking for justice.” Pope Francis began an unprecedented summit in Rome to confront the Catholic Church’s clergy abuse scandal by saying that Catholics are not looking for simple condemnation, but concrete actions. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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