VATICAN CITY
Tempo (Philippines)
Ignacio Bunye
Pope Francis recently backed with strong action his pronouncements to hold officials accountable in connection with the sex scandals that have shaken the Catholic Church.
On his assumption as pontiff, Pope Francis announced “zero tolerance” for the sex abuses which he called “the shame of the Church.” He further said that dealing with the sex abuse allegations was “vital to the Roman Catholic Church’s credibility.”
Last December, he announced the creation of a Vatican committee that will help fight child abuse in the Church.
Three weeks ago, BBC reported that the Vatican tribunal convicted a Polish archbishop and stripped him of his priesthood because of sexual abuse.
The archbishop is the highest ranking Church official so far investigated. He was found guilty of charges that he had abused boys in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, during his assignment in that city as a papal ambassador.
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