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Vatican Insider staff
Rome
The second day of the international Symposium on the prevention of sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy entitled “Towards Healing and Renewal” and organised by the Pontifical Gregorian University, concluded with a penitential vigil in the church of Saint Ignatius.
The one hundred plus bishops and 30 superiors representing religious orders who took part in the conference, will participate in the “penitential vigil” , during which seven representatives of different church groups will ask God and victims for forgiveness, for the sins committed and their failure to punish and prevent these offences.
During the liturgy, a “meaningful, clear and explicit” text will be read out, said Fr. Hans Zollner, President of the Symposium’s organizing committee. A victim will then ask God for the strength to forgive.
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