Pope Leo has raised “the question of how to deal with perpetrators in a manner consistent with Christian moral teaching, without playing punishment, atonement, penance, and forgiveness off against each other.”
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ROME – One of Catholicism’s leading experts in the fight against sexual abuse has said that in his recent Crux interview, Pope Leo demonstrated the same “authenticity” that characterizes his broad approach to the church’s abuse scandals.
The pontiff, said Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner, is “a very authentic person who is not only aware of the full extent of the abuse crisis, but also does everything in his power to ensure that abuse in its many forms is investigated, dealt with, and effectively prevented in an appropriate, professional, differentiated, and diligent manner.”
