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Pope Francis lashes out at Portugal’s Catholic hierarchy for ignoring clergy sexual abuse
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03/08/2023
The pope said that ignoring the clergy sexual abuse scandal for so long marred the Catholic Church and drove people away from it.
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Pope Francis has met survivors of clerical sexual abuse carried out in Portugal and blasted
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the country's Catholic hierarchy for its response. Francis addressed the scandal on the first
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day of a five-day visit to Lisbon for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day Festival.
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"It is often accentuated by the disappointment or anger that some people feel in relation
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to the Church. In some cases, by our bad testimony and by the scandals that have disfigured
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their faces and that call for a constant, humble purification, starting with the cries
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of pain of the victims, which more than ever have to be welcomed and heard."
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After his address and away from the cameras, Francis spoke to 13 abuse victims for more
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than an hour. The Pope's visit comes after a panel of experts hired by Portugal's bishops
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reported in February that priests and other church personnel may have abused thousands
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of boys and girls since 1950. After the document's release, the bishops initially refused to
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remove named abusers from their posts. This is Francis' fourth World Youth Day. The festival
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was launched by Pope John Paul II in the 1980s to invigorate the church's younger members.
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