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    Pope Francis Admits Priests, Bishops Sexually Abused Nuns

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    By Magic 103.7 on February 6, 2019 News

    Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged that priests and bishops sexually abused nuns, the latest scandal to hit the Roman Catholic Church.

    Speaking to reporters while returning home from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, Francis said, “It’s not that everyone does this, but there are some priests and also bishops who have done it.”

    “And I think that it’s continuing because it’s not like once you realise it that it stops. It continues. And for some time we’ve been working on it,” he said.

    The February issue of Women Church World, a supplement distributed with the Vatican’s Osservatore Romano newspaper, stated that nuns have been silent over abuse for decades for fear of retaliation.

    It added that the Vatican received reports of priests abusing nuns in Africa in the 1990s.

    “If the Church continues to close its eyes to the scandal – made even worse by the fact that abuse of women brings about procreation and is therefore at the origin of forced abortions and children who aren’t recognised by priests – the oppression of women in the Church will never change,” editor Lucetta Scaraffia wrote.

    The pope has summoned the heads of some 110 national Catholic bishops’ conferences and dozens of experts and leaders of religious orders to the Vatican from February 21 to 24 for an extraordinary meeting on the sexual abuse crisis.

    Victims of clerical sexual abuse are hoping that the meeting will finally come up with a clear policy to hold bishops themselves accountable for the mishandling of abuse cases.

    Source: Al Jazeera News

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