The Vatican summit against abuse commenced with a prayer to the Holy Spirit asking for help in finding solutions. <\/p>\n
Afterward, the superior of a religious order recited a prayer asking for further assistance. <\/p>\n
\u201cMany have been silent and not been able to ask for help. Additionally, others have spoken, but no one has believed them; or they have been called liars and silenced.\u201d Later Pope Francis began the meeting with a brief but intense speech. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS <\/strong> In private the 190 participants, most of them presidents of episcopal conferences, watched video testimonies from five victims.<\/p>\n During Thurday's session, the meetings will be dedicated to reflecting on the responsibility of bishops in these abuse situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 21, 2019. During Thursday's session, the 190 participants are reflecting on the bishops' responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EILv-60WlME","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bopeningsummiteng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bopeningsummitint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48323"}],"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=48323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cWe must recognize the wounds of the people and take action so the truth is not suppressed and justice is sought for the wounded.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe holy people of God look to us and expect from us not simple and discounted condemnations but concrete and effective measures. We must be concrete.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n