VATICAN CITY
AFP
February 21, 2019
By Ella Ide
A leading cardinal acknowledged the global scale of the child sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church on Friday, on the second day of a landmark summit at the Vatican on tackling paedophilia in the clergy.
The refusal by some bishops — notably in Asia and Africa — to admit clerical paedophilia was an issue in their countries was unacceptable, Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias told the extraordinary summit.
“The point is clear. No bishop may say to himself, ‘This problem of abuse in the Church does not concern me, because things are different in my part of the world’,” he said.
His comments came after Pope Francis opened the global summit on Thursday — the first of its kind — calling on the 114 top bishops present to forge “concrete measures” to deal with sex abuse cases in the Church.
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