Asian bishops acknowledge global sex abuse problem

by Jamie L Manson on Jun. 14, 2011

In response to the Vatican’s May 16th request that all bishops to formulate policies on the sexual abuse of minors, the Federation of Roman Catholic Asian Bishops’ Conference will host a 6-day seminar in Bangkok on “The Impact of Pedophilia.”

Msgr. Charles Scicluna, a official at the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and the Vatican’s chief sexual abuse prosecutor, will join the bishop in creating new, specific guidelines.

Hisashi Yukimoto of Religion News Service reports (See Asian bishops say abuse isn't just 'a problem of the West') that many Asian bishops have admitted to an increase in “letters from different quarters of the church that pedophilia has already become a considerably serious problem in Asia.”

An announcement on the Federation’s website is remarkably candid:

“Let us not be complacent that pedophilia is a problem of the West or the other continents of the world; it is equally prevalent in many countries of Asia.”

And we should be surprised?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Jun. 14, 2011.

And we should be surprised? Didn't the beatified PJ 2 say something about this being solely an American problem? It seems the beatified can be wrong every now and then.

Quoting from the article

Submitted by CER1940 (not verified) on Jun. 14, 2011.

Quoting from the article "“Let us not be complacent that pedophilia is a problem of the West or the other continents of the world; it is equally prevalent in many countries of Asia.”"... That is unusually candid for RCC heirarchy and gives a glimmer of hope for the Asian corner of the world.

All attempts by the heirarchy to claim that the pedophilia problem is limited to any geographic area, or to any time frame or to any other demographic is pure BS and self serving apologetics. Until the heirarchy quits that BS, they are not facing their problems.

The next shoe to drop is in

Submitted by Nameless 1 (not verified) on Jun. 16, 2011.

The next shoe to drop is in Africa. the only continent where it's safe for children would seem to be Antarticia.

The shoe has already dropped

Submitted by L.Newington (not verified) on Jun. 23, 2011.

The shoe has already dropped in that part of the world for religious women. Clergy were demanding sex, from them for favours therefore they would be safe from contracting aids, never mind if they already had it and then infected them. They weren't impartial to abortion either if an unwanted pregnancy was the result.
What a burden for these lost Brides of Christ:
I wonder where their Bishops were.

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