ROME
Rome Reports
[with video]
February 6, 2012. (Romereports.com) The pope has written to conference participants on how to deal with cases of sexual abuse and asked them to put first the needs of abuse victims.
It’s the key point of the conference “Towards Healing and Renewal”, organized by the Gregorian University in Rome, and actively supported by the Vatican.
The audience will include bishops from 110 episcopal conferences and more than 30 superiors of religious orders. The goal is to teach them how to help victims of abuse and explain what to do with priests and religious who commit these crimes.
Hans Zollner
President, Congress “Towards Healing and Renewal”
“You have all come to give a clear signal of the will and the duty of the Church to firmly change the way to behave when faced against evil, sin and the crime of sexual abuse within the Church and in society.”
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