ROME
Catholic Culture
Representatives of 100 bishops’ conferences and 30 religious orders are meeting in Rome from February 6-9 to discuss the clerical abuse scandal. Abuse victims are among the conference speakers, and at one point in the conference groups of participants will ask victims’ forgiveness.
Vatican Radio reported that
one Irish survivor, Marie Collins, will address the participants about her own need to hear not just the abuser priests ask forgiveness–something she has already grated to her own abuse–but to hear Church leaders, priests, bishops and cardinals, own up to their own roles in prolonging the suffering by putting the reputation of the Church above the needs of the children in their care.
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