“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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Pope Francis greets Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, during an audience at the Vatican June 24, 2021. Bätzing said he assured the pope that German Catholics do not want to split from the church. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.)
In a file photo, Pope Francis walks next to Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias as he leaves the morning session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2014. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)
改定版には、虐待の問題を扱う「人間の生命、尊厳、自由に対する犯罪」に関する新しい章が設けられた。教会法は現在、性的虐待の罪で有罪となった聖職者などを「職務の剥奪やその他の措置で」罰すること求めており、対象行為として、(小児性愛者が)児童をそうした目的で引き込むことや児童ポルノの保持、閲覧などが新たに追加される。また、改訂版が、性的虐待の相手として、未成年者だけでなく、「imperfect use of reason(理性の働きが不完全)」な人に広げ、また、司祭叙階されていない修道者、一般信徒も罰則の対象となり得る、としている。
今回の改定は、前々教皇の聖ヨハネ・パウロ2世が、この問題を真剣に受け止める必要がある、として問題提起をされたのが発端。前教皇のベネディクト16世が、性的虐待行為の報告の義務化を図ったが、教皇フランシスコはさらに、虐待と隠ぺいの防止、被害者のケアなどに具体的な措置を講じて来た。教皇就任後、聖職者の性的虐待、司教たちの説明責任、および虐待の隠蔽に関するいくつかのルールをを決めた。その中で最も重要なのは、虐待の通告義務とそのための制度整備を促す自発教令「Vos Estis Lux Mundi(あなた方は世の光)」で、聖職者による性的虐待に対処するための手順を明確にし、虐待の訴えを受けた際の対応について司教、修道会の責任者に責任を負わせるようにしたものだ。
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さらに声明は「正式な報告に続いて、教皇フランシスコの自発教令『Vos estis lux mundi(あなた方は世の光)』に従い、司教の過失に関する手続きを行った」と声明は述べた。2019年に発出されたこの自発教令は、性的虐待を犯した聖職者に司牧を続けさせる司教あるいは修道会会長に説明責任を求める規範と手続きを定めたもの。
LA CROIX international is the premier online Catholic daily providing unique quality content about topics that matter in the world such as politics, society, religion, culture, education and ethics. for post-Vatican II Catholics and those who are passionate about how the living Christian tradition engages, shapes and makes sense of the burning issues of the day in our rapidly changing world. Inspired by the reforming vision of the Second Vatican Council, LCI offers news, commentary and analysis on the Church in the World and the world of the Church. LA CROIX is Europe’s pre-eminent Catholic daily providing quality journalism on world events, politics, science, culture, technology, economy and much more. La CROIX which first appeared as a daily newspaper in 1883 is a highly respected and world leading, independent Catholic daily.
ポーランド司教会議の一環として、彼は「Iustitia et Pax」委員会、文化遺産保護評議会[1]、社会コミュニケーション評議会[3]のメンバーになりました。彼はまた、オーストリアの司教会議との接触のためのポーランドの司教会議の代表、ラジオとテレビのニエポカラヌフのためのポーランドの司教会議の助手としての地位を占めました。さらに、彼はカトリック情報局のプログラム委員会とオポカ財団の監査役会に加わりました。ポーランドの監督制を代表して、彼は中央ヨーロッパのカトリックデーの組織委員会のメンバーにもなりました[3]。