PHILIPPINES
Digital Journal
By Leo Reyes
Mar 11, 2013
One of the major issues confronting the Catholic church is the involvement of religious leaders or priests in various forms of sexual abuse being committed on church members and other workers in the institutions under the Catholic church hierarchy.
In the ongoing selection process leading to the proclamation of the a new Pope following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI last February 28, two of the more than 100 Cardinals who are candidates to the papacy, were reported to be “clean” from scandals of sexually-abusive priests, according a report by telegraph.co.uk
The report quoted a statement by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), saying “the vast majority of cardinals are tainted by having ignored cases of predatory priests or by having actively covered them up and impeded efforts by police and prosecutors to bring the offenders to justice.”
“The only two “papabili” or papal contenders who have a credible record on sex abuse scandals are Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines and Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Austri,” the statement added.
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