Priests have abused nuns, admits Pope
VATICANCITY: Pope Francis’s public admission that priests have used nuns as “sexual slaves” and may still be doing so marks a new chapter in the abuse crisis rocking the Catholic church.
“It is the first time that the pope, but also the church as an institution, has publicly admitted this abuse is taking place, and that’s hugely important,” Lucetta Scaraffia, editor of the Vatican’s women’s magazine, told AFP on Wednesday.
The pontiff on Tuesday said Catholic priests and bishops had been sexually abusing nuns, and that his predecessor Benedict XVI had dissolved a religious order of women because of “sexual slavery on the part of priests and the founder”.
The Church has “suspended several clerics” and the Vatican has been “working (on the issue) for a long time,” he said.
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The nuns scandal broke as the Catholic church has had to contend with a wave of cases involving paedophile priests in countries worldwide from Ireland and the United States to Australia.
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“Many complaints have been filed with the Vatican and have not been followed up,” said Scaraffia, who raised the issue in the February issue of Women Church World, a supplement distributed with the Vatican’s Osservatore Romano newspaper. “I very much hope that a commission will be set up to investigate, and that nuns expert in the issue will be called to take part.” ersisting with his move to pull he h plug on the INF Treaty with Russia, Trump floated the idea f a whole new deal that nvolves n “China and others”