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| 'We will follow the path of truth wherever it may lead', Francis said in 2015 (AFP Photo/Andreas SOLARO) |
Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis said Saturday that silence on sexual abuse can "no longer be tolerated" as he ordered an investigation into Vatican archives concerning former archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick, who resigned in July.
"Both
abuse and its cover-up can no longer be tolerated," said Francis in a
Vatican statement in which he declared the Church had to tackle "the grave
scourge of abuse within and beyond" the institution.
The case of
McCarrick triggered a storm in August after Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a
former Vatican envoy to Washington, dropped a bombshell letter accusing the
pope of ignoring allegations about the prominent US cardinal, one of the most
senior Catholic leaders to face abuse allegations.
Following
Vigano's letter, US groups representing survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic
priests urged the Vatican to publish a list of clerics accused of sexual
assault.
Saturday's
Vatican statement said Francis was "aware of and concerned by the
confusion that these accusations are causing in the conscience of the
faithful."
The
statement added: "Both abuse and its cover-up can no longer be
tolerated" and said the Church had a duty "to prevent such crimes
from being committed in the future to the harm of the most innocent and most
vulnerable in society".
The
statement also underlined that Francis had in an August letter to Catholics
stated that "the only way that we have to respond to this evil that has
darkened so many lives is to experience it as a task regarding all of us as the
People of God.
"This
awareness of being part of a people and a shared history will enable us to
acknowledge our past sins and mistakes with a penitential openness that can
allow us to be renewed from within," said the statement.
Regarding
McCarrick, the Vatican said Francis "has decided that information gathered
during the preliminary investigation be combined with a further thorough study
of the entire documentation present in the Archives of the Dicasteries and
Offices of the Holy See ... to ascertain all the relevant facts, to place them
in their historical context and to evaluate them objectively."
The Vatican
concluded the Holy See recognised "it may emerge that choices were taken
that would not be consonant with a contemporary approach to such issues"
but that, as Francis said in 2015, "we will follow the path of truth
wherever it may lead."
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Pope
Francis meets with leaders from the US church at the Vatican on Thursday
to discuss
claims of sexual abuse by clergy (AFP Photo/Handout)
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"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)
“… I gave you a channelling years ago when Pope John Paul was alive. John Paul loved Mary, the mother. Had John Paul survived another 10 years, he would have done what the next Pope [The one after the current one, Benedict XVI] will do, and that is to bring women into the Church. This Pope you have now [Benedict XVI] won't be here long.* The next Pope will be the one who has to change the rules, should he survive. If he doesn't, it will be the one after that.
There it a large struggle within the Church, even right now, and great dissention, for it knows that it is not giving what humanity wants. The doctrine is not current to the puzzles of life. The answer will be to create a better balance between the feminine and masculine, and the new Pope, or the one after that, will try to allow women to be in the higher echelon of the Church structure to assist the priests.
It will be suggested to let women participate in services, doing things women did not do before. This graduates them within church law to an equality with priests, but doesn't actually let them become priests just yet. However, don't be surprised if this begins in another way, and instead gives priests the ability to marry. This will bring the feminine into the church in other ways. It will eventually happen and has to happen. If it does not, it will be the end of the Catholic Church, for humanity will not sustain a spiritual belief system that is out of balance with the love of God and also out of balance with intuitive Human awareness. …”
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