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New pedophilia scandal in Australia. French Pope, the archbishop of Melbourne, monsignor Peter Andrew Comensoli, and his own archdiocese was sued before the Supreme Court of the Victoria State. Three men reported them aborigines who claim to have been sexually abused as the children of a parent Michael Glennon. According to the prosecution, the Vatican would have had knowledge of the crimes of pedophilia committed by the Australian priest, but would not have taken any measure after his two-year prison sentence, which took place in 1978, for sexual abuse and violence against fifteen minors. The three alleged victims, who asked to remain anonymous, claim to have suffered serious repercussions after the abuse: they became drug addicts and they run out House and without job. For this reason they have asked for substantial compensation from the leaders of the Catholic Church, both in Australia what in Vatican. The lawyer of the three men, Angela Sdrinis, said he was waiting for representatives of the Holy See in Australia accept service of mandate on behalf of Bergoglio. “It is a question – explained the lawyer – to ensure that the Father and the Vatican accept yours responsibility. What possible excuse can they make for not having reduced a parent Glennon to the secular state? “. The lawyer also recalled that, after the sentence, the Archdiocese of Melbourne suspended the priest, repeating, however, that only the Vatican it could have reduced it to the secular state. Which did not happen.
It is not the first time that the Archdiocese of Melbourne faces a case of pedophilia. The cardinal George Pell, prefect emeritus of the Ministry of Economy, had been accused of sexually abusing two boys, at the time of 12 and 13 years, of the choir of the cathedral of St. Patrick a Melbourne when, in 1996, he was auxiliary bishop of that archdiocese. Sentenced to six years in prison in the first and second degree, after thirteen months of isolation in prisonHigh Court of Australia it acquitted him unanimously. A story that had shaken not only the archdiocese of Melbourne and that of Sydney, they had had Pell in the head, but also the Vatican because, with the choice of Bergoglio, the cardinal had become for the first time a member of the Council of Cardinals that assists the Pope in the reform of the Roman Curia and in the government of church and then prefect of the Ministry of Economy.
After the acquittal, Pell highlighted that “my trial was not a referendum on Catholic Church, born a referendum on how the authorities of the church in Australia they faced the crime of pedophilia in the Church. The question was whether he had committed these terrible crimes and not ”. And he added: “The only basis for healing in the long run it is the truth and the only basis for justice is the truth, because justice means truth for everyone ”. Words in perfect harmony with those of Francesco that, closing the world summit on pedophilia of the clergy summoned to the Vatican in February 2019, said: “If in the church even a case of abuse was detected, which in itself represents a monstrosity, this case will be approached with the the greatest seriousness “. Assertions that were followed by landmark measures, including the abolition of the pontifical secret for cases of pedophilia.
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