次に、虐待の報告を受けた時に、明確な対応をする決意が必要です。まず、誠意を持って行われた被害の訴えを、決して隠蔽しない、と私たちは肝に銘じねばなりません。そして、確実にその訴えを、すでに整えられている法制度に従って、フォローアップ(調査し、その結果を基にした措置を取る)する必要があります。教会の司牧者たちの果たすべき責任について、教皇が希望された新しい教会法の定めがあります。2016年に教皇が出された自発教令「Come una madre amorevole」もあります。
さらに、2019年に教皇が出された自発教令「Vos estis lux mundi」。被害者の立場で考え、支援を提供する必要性について説いておられるだけでなく、虐待を隠蔽しようとする試みーomertà(注:マフィアの世界で使われる”血の掟”)の試みー非難しておられます。私には、教会法があり、優れた内容であり、問題は、それが十分に理解され、実行されていないことだけだ、と思われます。法制度の実践が求められているのです。
答:司祭を「もう一人のキリスト((alter Christus)」とするものです。この概念は、17世紀にフランスの霊性に関する学校(Pierre de Bérulle, Saint Vincent de Paul, Jean-Jacques Olier, Saint Jean Eudes, Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, Bossuet)で主張されました。これはトレント公会議(1545-1563)に決定に沿ったものでしたが、これは司祭を通常の状況とは別扱いされる時に、誤った神学となりえます。司祭は、キリストの存在と召し出しのしるしだったとしても、まず第一に「兄弟」なのです。私たちは”教会文化”について問わねばなりません。文化が問われることはめったにない。私たちが、それに浸っているからです。
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“The Diocese understands that redress may take varying forms,” noted the statement. “As well as enabling the provision of financial redress, the Scheme includes the possibility of a personal apology on behalf of the Diocese and other ways of providing pastoral support. The Diocese will also support the provision of counselling via the Towards Healing service.”
The statement went on to say that “the Scheme will respond to applications where there are allegations of sexual abuse (including sexual grooming), which may or may not have been accompanied by physical and/or emotional abuse, and which occurred when the Applicant was under the age of 18. All applications will be assessed by an independent Panel, appointed via an independent process managed by a third party organisation.”
“In assessing applications the Panel will have regard to all the available information and make its decision on the balance of probabilities and on a majority basis. The process will fall outside the civil litigation process and be comparable to a mediation. It is anticipated that the process will be informal in nature but is intended to be binding on the parties should a resolution be agreed.”
Commitment outreach
Archbishop Eamon Martin said he is committed “to continuing his ongoing pastoral outreach to survivors, making himself available to meet with those victims who wish to share their story with him and to consider with him other ways in which their pain can be acknowledged and by which their healing can be assisted.”
About 70 people have come forward in the past 35 years to make allegations of abuse related to the diocese.
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Archbishop of Cologne, makes a statement in the garden of the Archbishop’s House in Cologne, Germany, Friday, Sept.24, 2021. (Credit: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa via AP.)
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Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, center, a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, is seen at a conference of church representatives and child protection experts in Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 20, 2021. Pope Francis in a message to the conference called on bishops to recognize mistakes in their handling of sexual abuse and to convert sorrow into “concrete pathways of reform.” (Credit: CNS photo/Courtesy EpiskopatNews.)
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Dr. Ewa Kusz, Deputy Director of the Center for Child Protection at the Iin Krakow
(2021.9.16 Vatican News By Ewa Kusz)
中東欧の未成年者保護に関する地域会議が始まっている。会議の組織委員会のメンバー、ポーランド・クラクフのイエズス会経営Ignatianum Academy 児童保護センター事務局次長で心理学者・法医学者のエワ・クス博士は、司祭に虐待された人々の声を集めている。以下は博士のVatican News への寄稿だ。
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