ROME (ITALY)
WLS TV
February 23, 2019
By Alan Krashesky and Ross Weidner
As the Vatican Summit on sex abuse enters its third day, transparency became a major topic of discussion.
Transparency – and the frank acknowledgement that the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal seriously damaged the credibility the church and its bishops in leadership.
On Saturday morning, strong words came from Sister Veronica Openibo of Nigeria as she called out church leadership for hypocrisy.
“We proclaim the Ten Commandments,” Openibo said. “Why did we keep silent for so long?”
“…Transparency has to be the way we handle things and deal with things, here, but it also has to invade all of our procedures,” said Chicago’s Cardinal Blasé Cupich in an interview Friday.
Cardinal Cupich leading the way on new procedures with a new plan for how bishops would be disciplined if they are involved in abuse or mismanage abuse cases.
Friday, Chicago’s Archbishop called for a new structure for investigating bishops who are themselves abusers or those who grossly mishandle abuse cases. Those men – the Cardinal believes – should lose their jobs.
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