Sunday, April 18, 2010

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Pope Pope promises to victims bring the religious pedophiles to justice


MALTA .- (AGENCIALAVOZ.ORG) Benedict XVI met in Malta with eight men as boys were abused by pedophile priests. "The Holy Father has found a small number of people who suffered sexual abuse by clergy members.


been deeply moved by their stories and expressed their shame and sorrow for what victims and their families have suffered. He prayed with them and assured them that the Church is doing and will continue doing everything in their power to investigate allegations, bring perpetrators of abuses to justice and implement effective measures designed to safeguard young people in the future, "reads the statement with which the Vatican announced the news.
The pope's meeting with Maltese eight victims of sexual abuse (all between 30 and 40 years) has taken place in the chapel the Apostolic Nuncio and lasted about 20 minutes. The meeting began with everyone kneeling before the altar, praying silently. subsequently be, Benedict XVI has been greeted one by one to the eight victims and hearing from his lips their personal stories. In the end, all together they prayed together a sentence and the Pope has given his blessing.


'We are agradecidísimos'
The eight people who have met the Pope has said he was "satisfied" by the encounter with Benedict XVI, who themselves had requested. "I felt relieved and freed of a great weight," assured Lawrence Grech, one of the victims, told the Italian news agency Ansa. "Me and my friends we are agradecidísimos the pope," a visibly moved. According
Joseph Magro, one of the victims, Benedict XVI "had tears in his eyes," DPA reported. "It was a very exciting. The victims were crying, crying bishops and the pope had tears in his eyes." Magro has admitted that abuses "continue to be very difficult" for him, but now is "at peace with the Church." "The pope told me he would pray for me."
Another, who declined to be identified only by the name of Emanuel, has been surprised by the fact that the Pope would like to welcome you. "I did not expect this to happen, we have very much appreciated," he said, noting that the Pope was in Malta only 26 hours, so it was "fantastic" that would dedicate "a half hour." Emanuel explained, the Pope said "feel so much" what had happened. "I told him that I also feel that the Church is going through all this trouble for sexual abuse."


'do not want money, we want justice'
Nevertheless, said "continue to fight in the courts." "Many Maltese think we're doing this to make money. We do not want money, we want justice. We do not want others to suffer what we suffered," he said.
"The atmosphere was intense but very serene," he assured Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman. All victims who have met the Pope came to the orphanage children attended St. Joseph of Malta, where between 80 and 90 are secured suffered abuse and sexual abuse by six priests pedophiles.
Two of them have already died and against the remaining four in 2003 began a process that has not yet been sentenced. The result is that the four defendants are free: Charles Pulis, Godwin Scerri Joseph Bonnett and living in a convent in the Maltese town of Rabat, while Conrad Sciberras escaped to Italy at the beginning of the process. Victims of abuse are now asking the Maltese authorities to reactivate the trial and issued a search warrant and arrest Sciberras allowing extradition to Malta for trial.

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