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Bishops of the Catholic Church gather in Lourdes for their annual meeting, one month after a devastating report by an independent commission on widespread child sex abuse within the insitution. IMAGES
Bishops gathered in Lourdes pray on their knees on the esplanade of the Rosary Basilica in a penitential gesture to ask God for forgiveness for sexual abuse in the Catholic church. IMAGES
Vatican City, Oct 6 (EFE).- (Camera: Alvaro Padilla) Pope Francis on Wednesday said “this is a moment of shame” for the Catholic Church following a damning report on hundreds of thousands of cases of sexual abuse of children by the French clergy over the past 70 years.A commission investigating historical claims of abuse in the French Catholic Church found that around 330,000 children were sexually abused by between 2,900 and 3,200 priests since 1950, and that the abuse was systematically covered up by Church authorities.FOOTAGE OF THE POPE'S MASS.SOUNDBITES OF POPE FRANCIS.Translation:Yesterday the episcopal conference and the conference of French religious men and women received the report of the independent commission on sexual abuse in the church in charge of evaluating the extent of assaults and sexual violence committed against minors from 1950 onwards. Unfortunately, they turn out to be considerable numbers. I wish to express to their victims my sadness and my pain for the traumas they have suffered, and my shame, our shame, for the long inability of the Church to put them at the centre of their concerns, assuring my prayers. And I pray and we pray together to you Lord, glory to you, and shame for us, it is the moment of shame. I encourage the bishops, the faithful, superiors and religious to continue all efforts so that similar dramas are not repeated.I express to the French religious my closeness and my paternal support for them to overcome this ordeal, which will do good. I invite French Catholics to assume their responsibilities to ensure that the church is a safe home for all.
Cologne, Mar 17 (EFE/EPA).- The new expert report on child abuse and sexual violence in the Archdiocese of Cologne case will be presented on Thursday. (Camera: FRIEDEMANN VOGEL). SHOT LIST: A SCULPTURE BY ARTIST JACQUES TILLY WITH THE SLOGAN '11 YEARS OF RELENTLESS REAPPRAISAL OF THE ABUSE CASES!' IS SEEN IN FRONT OF THE CATHEDRAL IN COLOGNE, GERMANY.
Former USA gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar attended a court hearing in Lansing, Michigan on Monday after admitting to sexually assaulting minors. Gymnasts and other young women took to the podium to deliver statements to the disgraced doctor. The former doctor admitted to sexually assaulting underage girls under the guise of providing medical treatment after over 140 women accused him. Three executives from USA gymnastics board resigned on Monday following Nassar's trial.
76-year-old Cardinal George Pell entered a plea of not guilty at Melbourne magistrates court on Wednesday in the first hearing of the case of multiple historical sexual abuse offences against him. Media, protesters and some supporters crowded outside the courthouse, with many waving different signs decrying sexual abuse allegedly committed by Catholic clergy. The magistrate ordered the prosecution serve a brief of evidence by September 8, 2017 and Pell to return ot the court for a committal mention on October 6.
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