Pope Francis Again Deflects Sex Abuse Scandal
Pope Francis on Friday made his strongest public apology yet regarding sex abuse in the Catholic church, as he asked for forgiveness for the incidents and promised to strengthen sanctions to help prevent future cases.
"I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil which some priests, quite a few in number, obviously not compared to the number of all the priests, to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children," the pontiff told members of the International Catholic Child Bureau at a meeting at the Vatican.
Why is he “personally asking”? Why is he not, as the head of the organization, taking responsibility?
"The Church is aware of this damage," said the pontiff, according to a Vatican statement. "it is personal, moral damage carried out by men of the Church, and we will not take one step backward with regards to how we will deal with this problem, and the sanctions that must be imposed…we have to be even stronger, because you cannot interfere with children."
But what Bergoglio is doing is saying “Forget that hundreds and hundreds of bishops are implicated. We’ve corporately saved our own hides by obfuscation and shifting the blame to others.”
In fact, for 50+ years priests have been “interfering with children”, and bishops were simply moving them around and covering up for them.
The institution takes no responsibility.
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