{"id":29785,"date":"2019-02-06T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=29785"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:31:56","slug":"priests-bishops-sexually-abuse-nuns-turn-them-to-sex-slaves-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/priests-bishops-sexually-abuse-nuns-turn-them-to-sex-slaves-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Priests, Bishops Sexually Abuse Nuns, Turn Them To Sex Slaves—Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Francis admitted Tuesday that Catholic priests and bishops had sexually abused nuns, the latest scandal to rock the church.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some priests and also bishops who have done it,\u201d the pontiff said in response to a journalist\u2019s question on the abuse of nuns, speaking on the return flight from his trip to the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

The papal admission followed a rare outcry last week from the Vatican\u2019s women\u2019s magazine over the sexual abuse of nuns, leaving them feeling forced to have abortions or raise children not recognised by their priest fathers.<\/p>\n

The issue hit the headlines last year after a nun accused an Indian bishop of repeatedly raping her in a case that triggered rare dissent within the country\u2019s Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

Francis said the problem could be found \u201canywhere\u201d but was prevalent in \u201csome new congregations and in some regions\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s still going on, because it\u2019s not something that just goes away like that. On the contrary,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He said the Church has \u201csuspended several clerics\u201d and the Vatican has been \u201cworking (on the issue) for a long time\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018Must do more\u2019 \u2013<\/h3>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to hear it said that the Church has not got this problem, because it has.<\/p>\n

\u201cMust we do more? Yes! Do we want to? Yes!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said it was a cultural problem, the roots of which lie in \u201cseeing women as second class\u201d.<\/p>

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The February issue of \u201cWomen Church World\u201d, a supplement distributed with the Vatican\u2019s Osservatore Romano newspaper, warned that nuns have been silent over abuse for decades for fear of retaliation.<\/p>\n

It said the Vatican received reports of priests abusing nuns in Africa in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Church continues to close its eyes to the scandal \u2014 made even worse by the fact that abuse of women brings about procreation and is therefore at the origin of forced abortions and children who aren\u2019t recognised by priests \u2014 the oppression of women in the Church will never change,\u201d editor Lucetta Scaraffia wrote.<\/p>\n

In the Indian case, Bishop Franco Mulakkal was arrested on September 21 in the southern state of Kerala on suspicion of raping the nun in question 13 times between 2014 and 2016.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis suspended him the day before his arrest, appointing another bishop in his place. Mulakkal, 53, who headed the diocese of Jalandhar in the northern state of Punjab, has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

The nun first spoke out in June but police only started formal questioning in September, as fury over the case mounted.<\/p>\n

Five nuns \u2014 in a rare public show of dissent within the Indian Church \u2014 and dozens of supporters staged days of protests.<\/p>\n

Failure by Church officials to take action on sexual abuse allegations has been one of the biggest scandals to hit Roman Catholicism globally in recent years.<\/p>\n

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