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Related: About this forumPope admits Vatican has 2000-case backlog of sexual abuse cases
http://globalnews.ca/news/3449723/vatican-sex-abuse-case-backlog-pope-francis/Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that the Vatican has a 2,000-case backlog in processing clerical sex abuse cases and says criticism of the slow pace was justified. But he says more staff are being added and insists the Vatican is on the right path.
Francis was making his first comments about the criticism leveled at the Vaticans handling of sex abuse cases by Marie Collins, an Irish abuse survivor who resigned from Francis sex abuse advisory commission in March. Collins quit because of what she said was the unacceptable level of resistance within the Vatican to implementing the groups proposals to better care for victims and protect children from priests who rape and molest them.
Speaking to reporters while flying home Saturday from a trip to Portugal, Francis called Collins a great woman and said she was a bit right to complain about the slow pace in processing cases.
Marie Collins was right on that point. But we are on the right path, as there were 2,000 cases backlogged, he said.
Francis was making his first comments about the criticism leveled at the Vaticans handling of sex abuse cases by Marie Collins, an Irish abuse survivor who resigned from Francis sex abuse advisory commission in March. Collins quit because of what she said was the unacceptable level of resistance within the Vatican to implementing the groups proposals to better care for victims and protect children from priests who rape and molest them.
Speaking to reporters while flying home Saturday from a trip to Portugal, Francis called Collins a great woman and said she was a bit right to complain about the slow pace in processing cases.
Marie Collins was right on that point. But we are on the right path, as there were 2,000 cases backlogged, he said.
The sad part is thinking just how many more cases never got reported.
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Pope admits Vatican has 2000-case backlog of sexual abuse cases (Original Post)
trotsky
Sep 2017
OP
If they get through a case a year perhaps they will be finished before Jesus gets back.
Voltaire2
Sep 2017
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Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)1. 2000+
As Dan Savage said, if this were a Denny's, they would all be burned down.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)2. 2000 cases equals 200,000+ kids
Voltaire2
(13,244 posts)3. If they get through a case a year perhaps they will be finished before Jesus gets back.
Or not.