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Ante una comisión de investigación del Gobierno de Australia El cardenal Pell admite los “errores enormes” de la Iglesia con los abusos

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29 FEB 2016 

Desde las diez de la noche a las dos de la madrugada, en el salón de un hotel de Roma y bajo la mirada de una quincena de víctimas de abusos sexuales llegadas ex profeso, el cardenal australiano George Pell, responsable de las finanzas del Vaticano, declaró el domingo por videoconferencia ante una comisión gubernamental de su país que investiga casos de pederastia ocurridos entre los años setenta y noventa. El cardenal australiano, que no está acusado de abusos sexuales pero se sospecha que pudo haber hecho oídos sordos ante algunas denuncias, admitió que la Iglesia australiana “cometió errores enormes” al no reaccionar de forma adecuada ante los casos de pederastia. George Pell, de 74 años, es el más alto cargo de la Iglesia católica en declarar por un asunto relacionado con la pederastia.

“No estoy aquí para defender lo indefendible”, dijo el cardenal, “la Iglesia, en muchos lugares y ciertamente en Australia, ha estropeado las cosas y ha decepcionado a la gente”. Aunque se escudó repetidas veces en su “frágil memoria” para evitar responder sobre casos concretos, sí admitió que el traslado de parroquia en parroquia del sacerdote Gerald Ridsdale —quien abusó repetidamente de más de 50 menores de la ciudad de Ballarat desde la década de los sesenta hasta los ochenta— fue “una catástrofe para las víctimas” y admitió que si se hubiese combatido con anterioridad “se podría haber evitado una enorme cantidad de sufrimiento”. La duda de los “supervivientes” –así se autodenominan—de aquellos abusos es hasta dónde supo y, en tal caso, hasta dónde calló Pell, quien nació y fue sacerdote en Ballarat durante los mismos años en los que el capellán Ridsdale cometió aquellos abusos. También se preguntan las víctimas si es posible que, una vez nombrado arzobispo de Melbourne en 1996, siguiera sin enterarse de nada.

El discurso de las distintas víctimas que, gracias a una colecta han podido sufragarse el viaje hasta Roma, coincide en un punto fundamental: las palabras de condena de Jorge Mario Bergoglio son muy positivas, e incluso valoran lasmedidas preventivas que el Vaticano trata de poner en marcha, pero todo eso ya no es suficiente. “Queremos acciones reales de la Iglesia católica para ayudar a las víctimas a reconstruir sus vidas, y eso hasta ahora no ha sucedido”, explicó Anthony Foster, cuyas dos hijas —Emma y Katie— sufrieron abusos por parte de sacerdotes en los años ochenta, durante su niñez. Emma terminó suicidándose y Katie fue atropellada por un coche mientras caminaba ebria por una carretera. Antes de la declaración del cardenal Pell, Anthony Foster explicó a la agencia Efe: “Esperamos escuchar la verdad, lo que el cardenal Pell sabía, su conocimiento sobre la organización y lo que él hizo, también lo que podía haber hecho para proteger a nuestras hijas y a otros cientos y cientos, probablemente miles, de niños”.

Durante la comparecencia, que se inició a las 22.00 horas de Roma, ocho de la mañana en Australia, el cardenal Pell dijo que no había podido viajar a Australia para someterse a las preguntas de la comisión por motivos de salud. En más de una ocasión, cuando se le preguntó por casos concretos, respondió: “No recuerdo que hayan pasado este tipo de cosas, y en consecuencia no lo creo, pero mi memoria es a veces falible”. Sí admitió, en cambio, que en aquella época la tendencia generalizada de la Iglesia era no dar crédito a las denuncias de los menores para “proteger la vergüenza de la institución”. Aunque admitió que a principio de los setenta sí le informaron “brevemente” de lo que estaba sucediendo, volvió a excusarse: “En aquellos días no estábamos tan alerta como lo estamos ahora. Debo decir que, en aquellos días, si un sacerdote negaba este tipo de actividades, yo me inclinaba fuertemente a aceptar su negación”.

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Irish Times
Paddy Agnew from Rome

29 -2- 2016

It was in every sense a Vatican first. Around midnight in a downtown hotel in the centre of Rome, one of the most powerful Cardinals in the Vatican took to the witness stand to defend his record over the handling of clerical sex abuse.

If it was not happening before your eyes, you would say that it was something made up by film director Nanni Moretti of Habemus Papem fame.

Australian Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy and one of the nine man “Privy Council” of Cardinals who advise Pope Francis, was the Vatican prelate in question. Summoned late last year to appear before the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse, Cardinal Pell (74) argued that, for “heart-related” health problems, he could not travel to Australia.

The Cardinal agreed to testify to the Commission via a TV link-up, dully set up in the Quirinale Hotel.

The Commission is addressing the question of how child sex abuse incidents and different serial sex abusing priests were handled in two parts of the Australian Church where George Pell served as a priest, namely the town of Ballarat in Victoria and the archdiocese of Melbourne.

At stake is a simple question.

Given that a number of vicious, serial child sex abusers passed through both Ballarat and Melbourne during his time in each place, how can Cardinal Pell claim he was unaware of the ongoing abuse?

His testimony was liberally sprinkled with defensive answers such as; “I don’t have any clear recollection”, “my level of recall is not sufficient to rule it out” or “it’s over 40 years ago and I just cannot remember”.

He avoided polemics, even sounding politically correct as he said: “I am not here to defend the indefensible. The Church has been working to mend things...because we know that the Church has really mucked things up...”

The TV link up to Sydney worked perfectly. Those of us in the Quirinale ballroom could see and hear the commission and the commission could see and hear Cardinal Pell perfectly.

He sat at a small table on his own in the top corner of the room, having discreetly entered by a side entrance.

Ms Furness thanked him for having agreed to testify, pointing out that since his hearing was not taking place on Australian soil, the commission could not summon him to appear.

He was giving evidence as a “voluntary” witness, she said.

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All of the victims travelling to witness Cardinal Pell's testimony have now arrived in the Italian capital, with some admitting being so close to the Vatican will likely trigger confronting memories.

Andrew Collins, who was abused from the age of seven by four different men, said being in Rome would be hard.

"Growing up Catholic we're going to walk there, see all these sites and we'll be in awe," Mr Collins said.

"Then we'll see all the crucifixes and collars and we'll be triggered. So we'll have the highs and the lows, and that's before we've even seen Cardinal Pell."
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“Noi Sopravvissuti Ai Preti Pedofili Di Ballarat, A Roma Per Chiedere Al Cardinale George Pell La Verità”

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“Dall’Australia arriverò a Roma con il mio psicologo per assistere all’audizione del cardinale George Pell sui preti pedofili nella sua diocesi. Sarò nella stessa stanza. Voglio guardarlo negli occhi”.

Le parole di Andrew Collins giungono dall’altro capo del mondo. Partono dalla città di Ballarat dove l’uomo, ora quarantaseienne, è nato e cresciuto. E dove è rimasto vittima di quattro sacerdoti che lo hanno violentato ripetutamente dall’infanzia all’adolescenza.

“Pregavo Dio perchè fermasse gli stupri, ma non è successo. Le violenze includevano stupro anale, penetrazioni, carezze e molestie. Avevo fede ma me l’hanno strappata dal cuore”, racconta all’Huffington Post. Un orrore che lo ha segnato per sempre: “Un giorno decisi di impiccarmi, è stata mia moglie a tagliare il cappio per salvarmi”.

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What did George Pell know about these paedophiles when he was leading the Melbourne archdiocese?

By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 26 February 2016

Since 1993, Broken Rites has been doing research about how Melbourne's Catholic bishops harboured a number of sexually-abusive priests. In the mid-1990s, Broken Rites began exposing these priests. Now some of these priests, from the Broken Riteslist, are being investigated by Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission. This article will point you to the original Broken Rites research about each of these priests.

Here are some of the names from the Broken Rites list (to read a Broken Rites article on each priest, you can click on any of the following names).

• Fr Peter Searson. For many years, the Melbourne church hierarchy knew that Searson was committing sexual offences against children in parish schools but it managed to protect him from police prosecution. Obstinately the church kept him in the ministry but eventually the hierarchy was forced to put Searson on "administrative leave" to protect the public image of the church.
• Fr Wilfred (Bill) Baker. Baker worked in parishes around Melbourne — and he committed sexual crimes against children while his superiors and colleagues looked the other way.
• Fr Nazareno Fasciale (pronounced Fah-SHAH-lay). Church leaders, including George Pell, participated in a glowing tribute to this priest, who was one of the worst paedophiles in the Melbourne diocese. In 1996, when Broken Rites exposed this (and other) church cover-ups, George Pell's diocese went into damage control, hiring a public relations firm to announce the "Melbourne Response" (a forerunner of the church's "Towards Healing" strategy).
• Fr Kevin O'Donnell. During O'Donnell's life of crime, his superiors and colleagues looked the other way. In his final years, he even received public praise from one of his superiors, Bishop George Pell.
• Fr Ronald Pickering. The Melbourne church authorities protected Pickering for many years while he committed crimes against children in his parishes. Eventually he fled from Australia, evading justice. The Melbourne archdiocese then began sending retirement payments to Pickering at his new address in England but they didn't give this address to the police.
• Fr David Daniel. The church authorities kept ignoring complaints about the crimes of this priest, but eventually some of these victims spoke to Victoria Police detectives — and the police then charged Father Daniel, thus ending the church's cover-up.
• Fr Desmond Gannon. This is another example of how the church authorities protected a criminal priest for many years until some of his victims eventually spoke to Victoria Police detectives.

A vulnerable parish - Doveton

The Royal Commission public is also receiving evidence about how the Catholic Church authorities sent a series of FOUR sexually-abusive priests to one Melbourne parish — Doveton. This low socio-economic area — on Melbourne's south-eastern outskirts near Dandenong — includes a large number of vulnerable families.

The sexually-abuse priests at this parish included:

• Fr Peter Searson. He was at Doveton parish in the 1980s and 1990s, while this region of Melbourne was under the supervision of Bishop/Archbishop George Pell. Broken Rites finally helped to bring Searson to justice in, thus forcing the archdiocese to abandon Searson.
• Fr Bill Baker. He was an assistant priest at Doveton parish in the 1970s. Archbishop Frank Little covered up Baker's crimes in various parishes.
• Fr Vic Rubeo. He was at Doveton parish in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The church harboured this offender in various parishes for three decades.
• Fr Tom O'Keeffe. He was in charge of the Doveton parish in the 1970s.

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ANGRY parents at two Catholic schools have hired a pro
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sexual and institutional abuse lawyer as they demand the resignation of the parish priest.

Parents from St Patrick’s Parish Primary in Mentone and St John Vianney’s in Parkdale want Father John Walshe to quit his post.

RELATED: Kids in primary school mass protest amid Father John Walshe scandal

Their lawyer, Angela Sdrinis, told the Leader the school community “has lost confidence” in the priest and that his position “is untenable”.

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Ms Sdrinis said the concerned parents believe they “strongly represent the vast majority of the parents in the school community”, and have requested an “urgent response” from the Melbourne Archdiocese.

“We’ve had many, many issues raised with us — multiple concerns,” she said.

In December, Father Walshe was asked to make a statement by Cardinal George Pell’s legal team at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse about his recollection of a 1993 phone call between Cardinal Pell and a child abuse victim.

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It emerged Father Walshe had years earlier been accused of abusing an 18-year-old seminarian in the early 1980s after the pair had been drinking together.

Father Walshe has denied this and said the incident was consensual. It was revealed last December that the victim received $75,000 in compensation from the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne in 2012.

The parish of Mentone-Parkdale has two schools and Father Walshe has said he is the “manager of all matters” concerning the schools.

A few days ago St John Vianney’s told parents that Father Walshe would stop saying Mass for the time being.

Catholic Education executive director Stephen Elder said it was “not a permanent arrangement”.

A letter signed by Father Walshe was recently sent to St Patrick’s Mentone families urging them to “support the parish at a minimum level of $660 per annum”.

The Leader understands some parents want to take the protest to the next level by refusing to pay.

Despite the rising tensions, St Patrick’s school principal Tim Noonan and St John Vianney’s school principal Shane Regan said they stood by Father Walshe.

There are also school parents who side with the principals and support Father Walshe’s position there.

The Leader has contacted Father Walshe, who declined to comment.


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Child sexual abuse in the Australian Defence Force Cadets

22 February, 2016

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse would like anyone who has information regarding child sexual abuse within the Australian Defence Force Cadets to contact the Royal Commission.

Royal Commission CEO Philip Reed said the Royal Commission is tasked with investigating how institutions, including government agencies, have responded to allegations and incidents of child sexual abuse.

“If you were sexually abused as a member of the Australian Defence Force Cadets when you were a child, the Royal Commission would like to hear from you,” he said.

Mr Reed confirmed that the identity of anyone who provides information will be protected and will be kept confidential.

At this stage, no public hearing into the Australian Defence Force has been announced. If a hearing is announced at a later date, victims of child sexual abuse will not be compelled to give evidence if they do not wish to.

You can contact the Royal Commission via:

Phone: 1800 099 340

Email: solicitor@childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au or Mail: GPO Box 5283, Sydney NSW 2001.

For more information on the Royal Commission please visit our website

www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au

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