Vatican committee: Church credibility at risk over sex abuse

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Vatican committee: Church credibility at risk over sex abuse

December 18, 2018

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Organizers of Vatican summit on sex abuse prevention are warning that the credibility of the Catholic Church is in jeopardy over the abuse scandal and are urging participants to meet with victims to hear their pain firsthand.

In a letter sent Tuesday to the presidents of bishops’ conferences worldwide, organizers said the church must develop a “comprehensive and communal response” to the crisis, and that the first step is “acknowledging the truth of what has happened.”

Pope Francis invited the church leaders to the Feb. 21-24 summit to respond to the latest eruption of the scandal in the U.S., Chile and elsewhere. The Vatican said the summit would focus on three main areas: responsibility, accountability and transparency.

Organizers wrote: “Each of us needs to own this challenge.”

https://apnews.com/72d62fd96d484805886860ae172fad80

[Major Nikon]

1. Meanwhile the RCC is still obstructing criminal investigations

...and numerous child rapists and their co-conspirators are still on the RCC payroll.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/dioceses-sought-block-clergy-sex-abuse-grand-jury-harrisburg-greensburg-20180629.html

[Freethinker65]

2. At risk? the bishops lost credibility years ago.

[trotsky]

5. Exactly. n/t

[NeoGreen]

3. What credibility? (nt)

[Girard442]

4. The Church's credibility is at risk in the same way the Titanic's sailing schedule is at risk.

[Voltaire2]

6. That's impossible.

The RCC has zero credibility now. They’ve got nothing to lose.

[MineralMan]

7. So far, the Vatican is only offering lip service with regard to

decades or even more of sexual abuse of children and the covering up of that abuse. I sincerely doubt it will be able to offer much more than that in the future. The inertia of its hierarchy will prevent any substantial or useful response. Meanwhile, the church is staggering under financial judgments from civil courts.