Pope says Vatican abuse summit will not end crisis

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS JANUARY 28, 2019 / 7:38 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Pope says Vatican abuse summit will not end crisis

Philip Pullella
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned on Sunday against excessive expectations for next month’s Vatican summit on the global sexual abuse crisis, saying it was human problem that would continue.

Francis has summoned the presidents of all of the world’s national bishops conferences to the Vatican Feb. 21-24.

The meeting offers a chance for him to respond to criticism from victims of abuse who say he has mishandled the crisis and not done enough to make bishops accountable for covering it up.

But the pope said the highly anticipated meeting would not end the problem.

“The preparatory work is going well but I permit myself to say that I have perceived that there is an inflated expectation,” he told reporters on a plane returning from Panama.

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[Major Nikon]

1. The crisis will end when enough Catholics vote with their feet

...and not before.

[trotsky]

2. The crisis cannot end until the RCC changes.

And they won't change.

[Lordquinton]

3. Hmmmm

Pope Francis warned on Sunday against excessive expectations for next month’s Vatican summit on the global sexual abuse crisis, saying it was human problem that would continue.

Sounds familiar, maybe they are all singing from the same book?

[trotsky]

4. I don't think anyone has ever said the RCC could stop all child abuse, even that by their priests.

But what they CAN stop doing is covering it up and protecting the abusers, which is all the survivors want.

That shifting of the discussion is a desperate tactic by someone who has lost the argument a long time ago. Harmony indeed.

[Pope George Ringo II]

5. It's simply horrifying that they can't even grasp the problem.

Nobody is any more annoyed with them for hiring some child molesters than we would be with GM, or the Post Office, or any other large employer. The part which disgusts so many of us is the cover up by the organization. Forget Watergate, the RCC is the best example we'll ever have that it's not the crime, it's the cover up.

That's the moral failure they'll never, ever outrun.

[Lordquinton]

9. It's not about stopping all abuse everywhere

It's about holding accountable those who not only perpetrated it, but those who enabled it.

But their privilege is tied to the RCC's privilege, if we do anything that seems like infringing on their structure, even if it's to punish crimes, it undermines their own system.

But China...

[Major Nikon]

7. But whatabout those Chinese atheists?

[Lordquinton]

8. The worst part of that is how it diminishes the problem

What's going on in China is pretty bad, but it's only being used as a distraction from other issues. Shameful really.

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. Uh...