Ending Clergy Abuse call for zero tolerance

Описание: (20 Feb 2019) A clergy abuse survivor told a news conference ahead of a meeting with Pope Francis that he would be asking for zero tolerance for any clerics who commit sexual abuse against children.
"That's the worst crime you could possibly commit against a human being," said Peter Isely, one of the founding members of Ending Clergy Abuse, a worldwide organisation of human rights activists and abuse survivors from over 17 countries.
"If you've done that and you've used the priesthood to do that, that's how you've done it, you're gonna be taken out of the priesthood. Period," Isely added, saying it should be written into the law of the Catholic Church and that Pope Francis had the power to do it "with the stroke of a pen, before this summit ends."
Isely and other abuse victims were meeting with Francis on Wednesday ahead of a Thursday summit on clergy abuse.
Francis is convening this week's summit at the Vatican to prevent cover-ups by Catholic superiors everywhere, as many around the world continue to protect the church's reputation at all costs, denying that priests rape children and by discrediting victims even as new cases keep coming to light.
The meeting will bring together some 190 presidents of bishops' conferences, religious orders and Vatican offices for four days of lectures and workshops on preventing sex abuse in their churches, tending to victims, and investigating abuse when it does occur.

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