MEXICO
Telesur
A network of victims and former priests criticize the Vatican for not seeing substantive results and call for suspected perpetrators to be turned in to authorities.
Victims of clerical sex abuse and members of the Catholic Church once again demand that the Vatican and Pope Francis take substantive measures to stop abuse and act for justice for the victims.
Victims and former priests denounced what they say is the Vatican’s “hypocrisy,” as well as the “contradictions that exist in its attempts to tackle the crime, at a press conference in Mexico City Monday.
In an open letter to the Pope, the panel of participants wrote: “We find not only ambiguities, but obvious contradictions between your actions and your pledge that you would not tolerate pedophilia and take all the steps necessary to end this calamity in the Church.”
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