DENVER (CO)
Crux
October 25, 2018
By Robert Duncan and Anne Condodina
The more than 250 Catholic bishops from around the world meeting at the Vatican in October missed an opportunity to confront the global sex abuse crisis, said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia.
“I wish that we had spent more time not only talking about (the crisis) but apologizing to people for it,” said Chaput, one of the delegates elected by the U.S. bishops to participate in the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment.
The “resistance (of) some bishops” meant the abuse crisis was largely absent from the discussions, he told Catholic News Service Oct. 25. “Some say that (sex abuse) really is an issue of the Western world.”
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