Time is over do for a total collapse or disassemble of this institution of the faith.
Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission said on Monday after hearing hundreds of victims’ accounts.
Thousands of reports of paedophilia within the Catholic Church have surfaced around the world and Pope Francis is under pressure to tackle the scandal.
The Portuguese inquiry, commissioned by the Church in the staunchly Catholic country, published its findings after hearing from more than 500 victims last year.
“This testimony allows us to establish a much larger network of
victims, at least 4,815,” commission head Pedro Strecht told a press
conference in Lisbon that was attended by several senior Church
officials.
Church crimes
Why the Catholic Church had become a home "for deceivers, criminal priests or abusers," Sebastian asked.
"They have not had a home … they have to be taken to accountability and this is what is going to happen."
Sebastian pressed further asking Zollner if the church had given the predators an opportunity to continue to abuse.
"We have now instead established a system of accountability," Zollner said.
It must be held into accountability or be a crime syndicate.
PARIS (AP) — Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the country’s first accounting of the worldwide phenomenon.
The figure includes abuses committed by some 3,000 priests and an unknown number of other people involved in the church — wrongdoing that Catholic authorities covered up over decades in a “systemic manner,” according to the president of the commission that issued the report, Jean-Marc Sauvé.
