PARIS (FRANCE)
LaCroix International
July 8, 2019
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the third most senior active cardinal in the worldwide Church, has called on bishops and other Catholic officials to better engage in listening to victims of clergy sex abuse.
At a lecture last month in the Austrian capital of Vienna, where he has been archbishop since 1995, Schönborn said listening to victims was essential to breaking the “spiral of silence” that has allowed such abuse to continue for so long.”
The victims have to overcome an enormously high threshold even to begin talking,” the 74-year-old cardinal said at a conference on “Sex & Crime” at the Religiosity in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Institute at Vienna University.
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