ROME (ITALY)
Crux
January 3, 2019
By John L. Allen Jr.
On the clerical sexual abuse scandals that have rocked Catholicism anew in recent months, the pope’s top aide has said the Church must do “everything possible, and even the impossible, to eliminate this phenomenon.”
At the same time, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, also defended the Church’s response to date.
“We have to recognize that the Church has made enormous progress,” Parolin said in an interview with the Italian broadcast network TV2000. “It’s developed a progressive awareness of the problem, of the devastation these acts have produced in victims, and it’s tried to react.”
“Certainly, we’re human and we don’t always reach perfect results,” Parolin said, “but I believe there’s been commitment to determination.”
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