VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis said on Tuesday the Catholic Church had to acknowledge a history of male domination and sexual abuse of women and children and repair its reputation among young people or risk becoming “a museum”.
The pope is grappling with criticism over the Church’s response to a decades-long clerical sexual abuse crisis that has gravely damaged its standing around the globe and seen it pay out billions of dollars in compensation. He said clergy sexual abuse was “a tragedy” and asked young people to help the Church in “this dark moment”.
Some women’s groups seek a female priesthood. The Church has ruled this out, arguing Jesus chose only men as his apostles.In the final document of their synod last year, bishops recommended “that everyone be made more aware of the urgency of an inevitable change” in the role of women in the Church, but the pope did not directly address that on Tuesday.
He said such a view of the Church can “have serious and understandable reasons: sexual and financial scandals; a clergy ill-prepared to engage effectively with the sensitivities of the young.”“A Church always on the defensive, which loses her humility and stops listening to others, which leaves no room for questions, loses her youth and turns into a museum,” he said.
Women? Well....that’s a start.
Yes
Pope: Church should admit history of abuse of women, male domination and PAEDOPHILIA. Fix it.
Yes they should, but they won't care and still will do nothing major to rectify the centuries of wrongs. So all talk, no action, pointless words to try and save the image.
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You are the church lmao
SATAN
They are still protecting child molesters so I won't hold my breath
As well as the slave trade, conquest, and imperialism all under the name of God.
MaqsoodAsi
And pedophilea
mostre a real mesmo. quero ver se aguenta.
Women and vounerable persons / children
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