Cardinal Sean O'Malley is president of the commission that proposes policies to the pope and bishops in order to stop clerical sexual abuse and help victims. <\/p>\n
He knows the situation people who have suffered abuse face, and for that reason he publicly responded to the pope for his words.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> According to the cardinal, 'it is understandable that Pope Francis' statements... were a source of great pain for survivors of sexual abuse\u2026 [because they] convey the message 'if you cannot prove your claims then you will not be believed.''<\/p>\n On the other hand, the cardinal has avoided saying anything about the case of Bishop Barros. Juan Barros was the secretary for Fr. Fernando Karadima, a priest condemned by the Church for sexual abuse.<\/p>\n More than one victim has claimed the bishop knew the abuses by the priest and did nothing to report it. Barros denies, saying he was unaware.<\/p>\n On the other hand, Cardinal Sean O'Malley\u2019s statement assures that the pope is sincere with his commitment to zero tolerance for those who commit abuses.<\/p>\n The cardinal's spokesman assured that Sean O'Malley is in Lima, where he is open to meeting with the pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 21, 2018. Pope Francis said there is no evidence that Chilean bishop Barros was aware of Karadima\u2019s abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IOx57H9oiBI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bomalleyeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bomalleyint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49774"}],"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=49774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n'The day they bring me evidence against Bishop Barros, I'll begin talking. There is not one piece of evidence against him. Everything is slander. Is that clear?'<\/em><\/p>\n