Card O’Malley on sexual abuse crisis: ‘There is so much denial’
Photo ~ Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley on Sept. 2, 2009, defended his attendance at the funeral of Sen. Ted Kennedy. VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Roman Catholic Church failed to recognize the worldwide reach …More
Photo ~ Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley on Sept. 2, 2009, defended his attendance at the funeral of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Roman Catholic Church failed to recognize the worldwide reach of clerical sexual abuse, Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said Saturday (May 3) at a press conference.
“In many people’s minds it is an American problem, an Irish problem or a German problem,” he said. “The church has to face it is everywhere in the world. There is so much denial. The church has to respond to make the church safe for children.”
In February, a U.N. committee on the rights of the child denounced the Vatican for adopting policies that allowed priests to sexually abuse thousands of children and called for known and suspected abusers to be immediately removed.
Francis strongly rejected the report’s findings, saying that no other organization had done more to fight pedophilia and the church had acted with "transparency and responsibility."
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Roman Catholic Church failed to recognize the worldwide reach of clerical sexual abuse, Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said Saturday (May 3) at a press conference.
“In many people’s minds it is an American problem, an Irish problem or a German problem,” he said. “The church has to face it is everywhere in the world. There is so much denial. The church has to respond to make the church safe for children.”
In February, a U.N. committee on the rights of the child denounced the Vatican for adopting policies that allowed priests to sexually abuse thousands of children and called for known and suspected abusers to be immediately removed.
Francis strongly rejected the report’s findings, saying that no other organization had done more to fight pedophilia and the church had acted with "transparency and responsibility."
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