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KardinalGereja Akui Arsip soal Pastor Paedofil Dihancurkan At Vatican summit, Pope Francis calls for ‘all-out battle’against sexual abuse but is short on specifics By Chico Harlan and Michelle Boorstein February 24 at 4:29 PM VATICANCITY — For fourdays, some of the world’s highest-ranking Catholics listened to speeches aboutthe “outrage of the people” and the imperative of action. They heard testimonyfrom abuse victims, including one who movingly played the violin. And onSunday, they gathered in a frescoed Vatican hall, where Pope Francis concludedthe summit on clerical sexual abuse by calling for an “all-out battle” againstthe scourge. But the unprecedented meetingended Sunday with few concrete remedies, and it left the Catholic Church muchwhere it started at the beginning of the week: asking for more time from animpatient faithful to draw up ways to reliably police itself. “We are dealing with abominablecrimes that must be erased from the face of the earth,” Francis said in aspeech that was short on specifics but mentioned future “legislation.” The vague outcome underscored the looming challengefor an institution that has long acknowledged the seriousness of clerical abusebut struggled to curtail it. While some participants said the event would proveto be a turning point, many victims said it had amounted to a training seminarthat skirted key decisions and raised points that should have been obviousyears ago. “I don’t think we can rely on the institution to cleanup its act,” said Peter Saunders, a British sex abuse survivor and formermember of Francis’s commission on the protection of minors. Since the clergy abuse scandal first exploded onto thescene in the United States in 2002, the Vatican has seen cases emerge in nearlyevery corner of the world with the means to investigate. Thousands of priestshave been disciplined by the Holy See, but even that figure doesn’t account forthe scale of the problem, as many accusations are never reported to Rome. The Argentine pontiffannounced the summit in September while facing abuse-related scandals onmultiple continents — stemming from cases that had damaged his own reputationand further abraded the church’s credibility. At the start of the event,Francis called for “concrete and effective measures” to contend with theproblem. And though some of the Vatican’s handpicked speakers described theirproposals in detail, any follow-through will have to come in the months andyears ahead, if at all. Several U.S. bishops pledged Sunday to improve theirown guidelines at a June meeting. The event organizers have said they will remain inRome in the coming days to discuss some of the ideas aired at the summit.Archbishop Charles Scicluna, of Malta, noted that Francis on Thursday handedout “21 reflection points” — ideas for action the church can potentially takeagainst abuse. After a group discussion session, some bishops responded with 21ideas of their own. “We need to bring all of this together when we’rediscussing follow-up,” Scicluna said. In his remarks Sunday, Francis spoke in sweeping termsabout abuse, describing the underlying reasons that victims are fearful aboutspeaking out and the fallout they face as adults, including “bitterness” and“suicide.” Parts of his speech — which was heavily footnoted with data frominternational organizations — had little to do with the church, and hementioned how abuse can take place within families, schools and athleticfacilities, and how the digital world adds new dangers for young people.Abuse is a “worldwide phenomenon,” Francis said, butit is “all the more grave and scandalous in the church,” incompatible with its“moral authority and ethical credibility.” Francis said the church would “spare no effort to doall that is necessary to bring to justice” anyone who has committed the“crimes” of abuse. But he did not mention a zero-tolerance policy, favored by manyCatholics, that would force priests found guilty of child abuse to be removedautomatically from ministry. Though some countries, including the UnitedStates, have such zero-tolerance guidelines on the books, it is not anacross-the-board church practice. After Francis’s speech, the Vatican said it wouldpublish a guidebook for bishops that will help them understand their “dutiesand tasks” on abuse. The Vatican also said it would create new child-protectionlaws for its own city-state — rules that cover the 110-acre space near theTiber River but not the universal church. Pressed on the matter, a Vaticanspokesman said those new laws have been in the works for months and are not adirect result of the summit. Largerquestions, including how the church will handle the investigation anddiscipline of bishops accused of misconduct, remain unresolved — though keydevelopments could be on the horizon. Vatican officials have said Francis willsoon “clarify” a 2016 church law that was drawn up to hold bishops accountablefor negligence, something the Vatican has long struggled to do. On Friday,Cardinal Blase Cupich, of Chicago, laid out his own plan for improving theoversight of bishops, urging, among other steps, that lay people be involved ininvestigations. Prelates in the United Stateshave pushed for new ways to regulate the behavior of bishops in the wake ofbruising abuse revelations about recently defrocked former cardinal TheodoreMcCarrick, who rose through the ranks of the faith even as rumors swirled abouthis behavior. The Vatican in November stopped the U.S. bishops at their annualmeeting from voting on new steps to hold bishops more responsible in abusecases. A Vatican cardinal later indicated, in a letter obtained by the AssociatedPress, that there were problems with the U.S. proposals. But some AmericanCatholics say the Vatican thwarted a potential improvement of current U.S.church anti-abuse guidelines. In a statement issued Sunday,Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the president of the U.S. Conference of CatholicBishops, said the U.S. church would go forward with ideas “in communion withthe Holy See” and consider them at a meeting in June. “Achieving these goals will require the active involvement andcollaboration of the laity,” DiNardo said. One American bishop, ShawnMcKnight, of Jefferson City, Mo., who was not in Rome, called the summit a“cathartic moment for the global church.” McKnight and BaltimoreArchbishop William Lori, who have been vocal about holding top church leadersaccountable, said Sunday in separate telephone interviews that the summitsmoothed the path for the U.S. church to pass concrete measures when allAmerican bishops meet again in June. “I think we can look at whatwas proposed last November, flesh it out, recognize how it relates not only toour local situation but to the whole church, and then put something togetherthat will probably be better thought out and will do more good in the longrun,” Lori said. “I wasn’t happy in November that we couldn’t do what weattempted to do, but I’m now hopeful we will do the job better come June.That’s my hope and prayer. That’s the signal we’re getting from Rome.” Lori said the difference sinceNovember has been spiritual — U.S. bishops having a week-long spiritual retreatin January that the pope called for, and to be led this past week by a Jesuit,an order that focuses on discernment and prayer. “In America we want the quickfix, the rule, the law, and this has a real sense of urgency,” Lori said. “Ithink [Francis] is also asking us to step back to pray and reflect and discernand get it right.” Boorstein reported fromWashington.
