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While the "Summit on the Protection of Minors in the Church" continues behind closed doors in the Vatican, victims of sexual abuse still demand justice.
With our Vatican correspondent, Eric Sénanque
On the one hand, Church leaders who studiously pursue their work. On the other, victims who claim compensation. Two temporalities difficult to reconcile. The summit that opened on Thursday and for four days at the Vatican is nevertheless necessary to continue setting a course for many bishops in need of the magnitude of the crisis of sexual abuse.
" A fundamental task is to restore justice to those who have been raped, " said Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay. Cardinal Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, recalled that the Church must be in a position of " radical listening to understand the deadly experience of those who have been sexually abused by the clergy . The American cardinal, very close to Pope Francis, spoke of " the heartbreaking reality of children whose wounds will never heal ".
While some of the prelates who came to Rome seem helpless in the face of the victims' suffering, others do not hesitate to meet them. Cardinal Marx, Archbishop of Munich, thus met this Friday afternoon for an hour and a half, on his initiative, 16 of these victims, before informing Pope Francis.
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