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International Movement We Are Church – IMWAC
Movimiento internacional Somos-Iglesia
Movimento Internacional Nós somos Igreja
Movimento Internazionale Noi siamo Chiesa
Mouvement international Nous sommes Eglise
Internationale Bewegung Wir sind Kirche
Movimiento internacional Somos-Iglesia
Movimento Internacional Nós somos Igreja
Movimento Internazionale Noi siamo Chiesa
Mouvement international Nous sommes Eglise
Internationale Bewegung Wir sind Kirche
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The recent
statement against the Vatican of the Committee for the implementation of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child confirms, with the authority of a
structure of the United Nations, what has been known for some time and what the
victims of sexual abuses have denounced for years.
The International
Movement We Are Church (IMWAC) has been part of the international mobilization
on this very serious issue and share the position of the Committee, concerning
how the Vatican has dealt, in the majority of cases, with the issue of
pedophile priests in the Catholic Church. The attempts to minimize the
responsibility of too many Church leaders are at odds with reality; reports and
judgments from different countries make now this very clear.
We know that the
responsibility for this situation is not of individual priests or bishops only,
but goes back to the central structures of the Church. The Vatican had the
serious responsibility of having tried to wash the dirty linen at home, and in
this way they were washed badly or not at all, and certainly too late.
Pope Francis needs
to be intransigent and to take action very quickly. The decision to establish
an ad hoc committee is completely inadequate. There is a need for a directive,
which should impose to the Bishops' Conferences in the different countries
obligations of transparency and publicity. Church authorities should be
obliged to accept, request and support the prosecution of the alleged
perpetrators by the judiciary.
These obligations were, and are still, stubbornly refused by the CEI, the Italian Bishops Conference, as confirmed in the recent meeting of its Permanent Council, despite that pedophilia crimes have been committed by the clergy in Italy not less than in other countries.
These obligations were, and are still, stubbornly refused by the CEI, the Italian Bishops Conference, as confirmed in the recent meeting of its Permanent Council, despite that pedophilia crimes have been committed by the clergy in Italy not less than in other countries.
As believers in
the gospel and members of this Church we are deeply saddened by this situation,
which makes us suffer and for which we pray.
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Media contact:
Christian Weisner, Tel: +49-172-5184082, media@we-are-church.de
www.imwac.net/413/index.php/contact/contacts
Christian Weisner, Tel: +49-172-5184082, media@we-are-church.de
www.imwac.net/413/index.php/contact/contacts
The International Movement We Are Church, founded in Rome in 1996,
is represented in more than twenty countries on all continents and is
networking world-wide with similar-minded reform groups. We Are Church is an
international movement within the Roman-Catholic Church and aims at renewal on
the basis of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). We Are Church was started
in Austria in 1995 with a church referendum.
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