are the same priests to tell old stories of abuse, demanding that the truth resurface
Pope Ratzinger urged the Church to transparency, but the Vatican is concerned
Complaints and Claims
, the Holy See is concerned the Italian front
A book written by a priest collects anonymous proxies vulnerable to the latest
MARCO ANSALDO
VATICAN CITY - Maybe it was inevitable. Certainly not expect everyone, even the Vatican. But the scandal of pedophile priests come sooner or later also appeared in Italy more than a hypothesis. It was a latent concern. Now, a certainty, since the first reports have already started. After the case broke in the United States in 2002, those in Brazil in 2005, the sentences in Australia in 2008, the Murphy report on abuses in Ireland in 2009, and the more recent investigations initiated in 2010 in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, the Holy See will have to prepare for a new front.
It has not been a case where only a few days ago, the diocese of Bolzano and Bressanone, struck by the echo of the confusion caused in the nearby German-speaking area, indicated on its website an e-mail address to which the victims can make recommendations. Preventive action, initiated by Bishop Karl Golser, the sign of total transparency recommended by Pope Ratzinger. Even the other day a South Tyrolean came forward, telling the newspaper Tageszeitung abuse suffered by a boy in the sixties, five brothers during a summer stay in a convent Bolzano. Violence occurred "in the vineyards and cellar room." Soon after it was the turn of a former student of a college of Neustift, near Brixen, who has denounced lashes.
in Florence and then resurfaced yesterday the story of Fr Lelio Cantini, the priest guilty of sexual abuse against minors carried out between 1973 and 87, as pastor of the Church "Queen of Peace." After lengthy procedural events, Cantini was reduced in 2008 by Benedict XVI to the lay state. Now his victims to the ecclesiastical authorities blame the "lack of awareness of their responsibilities." Expect Francis said, on behalf of all: "Too easy to offer the head of the pedophile in office without addressing the real problem: why, when we asked to be heard, the Church has first notice the silence, charged furiously, and threatened and asked to forget? ".
More stories emerge, which are described in detail in the book" hidden sin " (publisher Nutrition, edited by Luigi Irdi) out Wednesday. The author, who signed off as Anonymous - an acronym that includes the contribution of many hands, including that of a priest who preferred not to appear in person - collect the many complaints Prosecutors in several recently arrived in Italy. There is the story of a group of children from a village near Hundred, Diocese of Ferrara, abused by Father Andrea Agostini, who was sentenced in 2008 to 6 years and 10 months imprisonment, e al risarcimento di 28mila euro. Il loro avvocato, Claudia Colombo, aveva anche scritto al cardinale di Bologna, Carlo Caffarra, chiedendo una presa di responsabilità della curia locale. Nel dispositivo della sentenza i giudici di primo grado hanno denunciato "il silenzio dei vertici ecclesiastici e la loro ritrosia a mettere sul tappeto le notizie sulle accuse che già da tempo circolavano".
Un altro caso descritto è quello di una parrocchia alla periferia nord di Roma, dove don Ruggero Conti, parroco della Natività di Maria Santissima, è stato processato nel febbraio 2008 al palazzo di giustizia di Roma per abusi sessuali nei confronti di sette ragazzi che hanno testimoniato le violenze al pubblico ministero Francesco Scavo.
But, among many, perhaps the most terrible is that of Alice, a girl of 8 years of Bolzano, for a long period raped, shot, abused missal in hand with the education to which parents had entrusted to teach the catechism. The accused, Don Giorgio Carli, addressing all levels of courts on charges dating back to the Eighties - and always doomed - March 19, 2009 is "discharged" from the third session of the Supreme Court declaring those criminal offenses prescribed by Law former Cirielli. The ruling, while confirming the authenticity of the facts, can only contemplate the order to pay. Which never arrived.
The Vatican, who knows many of the cases, appears worried. Not only a question of image. But also because the opening of the Italian front would be the start of proceedings for damages referred hardly the only diocese could bear. The Curia is concerned that risk. In some cases, even the priests to report stories now buried, with documents and files. They ask themselves transparency, because the truth after so many years, finally resurface.
(La Repubblica 14 March 2010)
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