A good comment:

"You must all pay for these crimes," Devaux told the clergymen, slowly enunciating each word before repeating the phrase again. "In this hell, there have been atrocious crimes committed for decades ... there was a betrayal: betrayal of trust, betrayal of morality, betrayal of children, betrayal of innocence of your own people, betrayal of the gospel, betrayal of the original message, betrayal of everything."


More: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/05/europ...intl/index.html

Victims were not believed'

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'Victims were not believed'
The report, which is nearly 2,500 pages long, said the "vast majority" of victims were boys, many of them aged between 10 and 13.

It said the Church had not only failed to prevent abuse but had also failed to report it, at times knowingly putting children in contact with predators.

"There was a whole bunch of negligence, of deficiency, of silence, an institutional cover-up," the head of the inquiry, Jean-Marc Sauvé, told reporters on Tuesday.

He said that until the early 2000s, the Church had shown "deep, total and even cruel indifference" towards victims.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58801183

Let's hope the guilty ones will go to prison for their crimes.