LIMA (PERU)
La República
>>It is not enough to just ask for forgiveness
January 17, 2018
By Augusto Álvarez Rodrich
La iglesia frente a sacerdotes y religiosos que son pedófilos.
Algo incorrecto ocurre en la iglesia católica cuando un pedido de perdón del papa Francisco por los graves casos de pedofilia de sacerdotes se vuelve noticia.
“No puedo dejar de manifestar el dolor y la vergüenza que siento ante el daño irreparable causado a niños por parte de ministros de la iglesia. Sé que es justo pedir perdón y apoyar a las víctimas, además estamos empeñados para que no se vuelva a repetir”, dijo ayer en Chile, donde la iglesia católica sufre un severo desprestigio por los abusos sexuales que han generado más de 80 denuncias.
Pero peor fue el blindaje a sacerdotes involucrados en pedofilia por parte del Vaticano expresado en que Francisco designó como obispo de Osorno a Juan Barros, alguien a quien las víctimas de los abusos señalan como muy cercano a ese monstruo eclesiástico de Fernando Karadima.
En el Perú tenemos un problema parecido: los abusos sexuales y psicológicos realizados en el Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, ante los cuales el arzobispado de Lima no actuó con la diligencia requerida, lo cual generó una demanda al cardenal Juan Luis Cipriani ante el Ministerio Público.
Sin embargo, estas denuncias fueron imposibles de negar cuando apareció Mitad monjes, mitad soldados, de Pedro Salinas y Paola Ugaz.
[Google Translation: The church in front of priests and religious who are pedophiles.
Something wrong happens in the Catholic Church when a request for forgiveness from Pope Francis for the serious cases of pedophilia of priests becomes news.
“I can not help but express the pain and shame I feel at the irreparable damage inflicted on children by church ministers. I know it is fair to ask for forgiveness and support the victims, and we are committed so that it does not happen again, “he said yesterday in Chile, where the Catholic Church suffers a severe loss of prestige for the sexual abuse that has generated more than 80 complaints.
But worse was the shielding of priests involved in pedophilia on the part of the Vatican, expressed in that Francisco designated as bishop of Osorno Juan Barros, someone whom the victims of the abuses point out as very close to that ecclesiastical monster of Fernando Karadima.
In Peru we have a similar problem: the sexual and psychological abuses carried out in the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, before which the archbishopric of Lima did not act with the required diligence, which generated a demand to Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani before the Public Ministry.
However, these denunciations were impossible to deny when Mitad monks appeared, half soldiers, of Pedro Salinas and Paola Ugaz.
The judicial case has advanced but not enough. Although he did it a few days before Francisco’s visit to Peru, the Vatican has done well to order Sodalicio’s intervention.
What, however, remains unprecedented is the shielding of the Vatican to that defendant of pedophilia with very solid evidence that is the founder of Sodalicio Luis Fernando Figari.
Last year, the Vatican decided that Figari should remain in Italy and not return to Peru. The problem is that the Peruvian justice requires it to prosecute him for serious crimes.
For the Pope’s requests for forgiveness to make real sense, the Vatican must contribute to putting priests and religious accused of rape in justice instead of covering them up.
Cover-up that includes the Peruvian political sector expressed in the outrageous support of Fuerza Popular to the rapists of the Sodalicio.
And that must reach all cases. From the Sodalicio linked to the right, to the left as those of the Héctor de Cárdenas school.
93% of Peruvians surveyed by Ipsos believe that Pope Francis should have a position of greater condemnation with priests and religious who have committed abuses against minors. I hope that Pope Francis will do much more in Peru than just ask for forgiveness.]
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