Pope Francis expresses “shame” to Bolivia for cases of pedophilia

He Pope Francisco expressed this Thursday to bolivian his “shame and dismay” at the revelations of sexual abuse committed by religious against minors in the South American country and told the president Luis Arce his desire to work with the government to clarify what happened.

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the bishop of Rome sent a letter to Maple in response to another letter that the president sent him on May 22, in which he informed him the pain in the country due to the revelations of pedophilia.

The Minister of the Presidency, Maria Nela PradaHe read the content of the letter.

Francis stated “pain” and “feelings of shame and dismay” after the newspaper El País revealed on April 30 a personal diary of the late Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajasknown as “Pica”, who confessed to having harmed “Many people”, and went on to mention up to 85 victims.

After knowing the case of “Pica”, the departmental prosecutors received another 12 complaints, as indicated this week by the Bolivian Episcopal Conference.

Among those denounced are, in addition to Pedrajas, the Spanish priests Luis María Roma, Alejandro Mestre and Antonio Gausset (father Tuco), all deceased.

In your note, Francisco describe these events asdeplorable” and the actions of the priests as nefarious. He also questions “the negligence of those who should have watched” so that the facts did not occur.

The Argentine Supreme Pontiff told Maple his “firm desire to respond with the promise of the full availability of the Church to work together with the government” of bolivian.

He also mentioned the shared duty of “to repair injustices and to always be faithful to the task of protecting who are the favorites of Jesus”.

President Arce thanked on Twitter the response of the dad“in which he shares our great concern, indignation and repudiation to pedophilia cases in” the country.

He also raised the need for “strengthen control to prevent foreign priests with a history of sex crimes come into the country.”

bolivian is shaken by one of the biggest pedophilia scandals committed by Catholic religious, while the country’s Prosecutor’s Office investigates the complaints.

The bolivian catholic church opened this week and separately four commissions to deal with and receive other cases.

Source: Elcomercio

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