{"id":43709,"date":"2022-07-08T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/07\/08\/pope-francis-says-churchs-path-to-combat-child-abuse-is-irreversible\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T19:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T17:21:14","slug":"pope-francis-says-churchs-path-to-combat-child-abuse-is-irreversible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/07\/08\/pope-francis-says-churchs-path-to-combat-child-abuse-is-irreversible\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis says Church's path to combat child abuse is \u201cirreversible\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis described the Church's path toward reaching a \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy on child abuse as \u201cirreversible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Reuters, the Pope recognized that in some national Catholic Churches, there was resistance to implementing procedures aimed at preventing child abuse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet he added that \u201cwith each new step, there is growing awareness that this is the way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis has taken concrete measures to push the Church along that path. Just one year into his papacy, Pope Francis established the pontifical commission for the protection of minors, a body comprised of laypeople and the clergy which he recently placed at the heart of the Church's institutional organization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CARD. SEAN O'MALLEY<br \/>\n<\/strong>President, Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors<br \/>\n<em>The Holy Father has given the commission a very clear mandate to animate the entire Church from within the Roman curia on the subject of child protection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While critics say the Church is still not doing enough to prevent child abuse, Pope Francis said the structural change to give the commission a greater voice in the Church was \u201cgoing well\u201d and that he \u201ctotally supports\u201d it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 08, 2022. The Pope acknowledged there has been resistance within the Church in implementing certain anti-abuse measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i9Z0YvMwLKU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/breutersabusoseng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/breutersabusosint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}