Pope Francis calls for the Church to be “an increasingly safe place for minors”

He Pope Francis He asked this Thursday to make the Church “an increasingly safer place for minors and the most fragile adults” and recognized that facing the challenge posed by the “abuse scandal” is “huge and complex”.

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“Faced with the scandal of abuse and the suffering of victims We could become discouraged, because the challenge of rebuilding the fabric of destroyed lives and healing the pain is great and complex,” he said in an audience with members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

The pontiff asked them to focus “on helping to make the Church an increasingly safe place for minors and the most fragile adults” so that the Church “is always and everywhere a place where everyone can feel if at home.” .”

Proximity to victims of abuse within the Church “is not an abstract concept: it is a very concrete reality, made up of listening, interventions, prevention, help”, he explained.

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“We cannot help someone else carry their burdens without placing them on our shoulders.without practicing closeness and compassion,” he said.

Therefore, he called on them to “know directly the impact of abuse” and to let themselves “be affected by the suffering of the victims, listening directly to their voices”.

“The response to those who have suffered abuse comes from this look from the heart, from this proximity. It should not happen that these brothers and sisters are not welcomed and listened to, because this could greatly worsen their suffering,” she said.

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Francisco also asked that “the fruits” of the work of this commission “be known and seen” that they do “accompanying the ministry of guardianship of the local Churches”.

Source: Elcomercio

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