Network abuse writes to card. Bassetti: “Enough hypocrisy, we need a Commission to investigate pedophilia cases”

“We must investigate and pay, we need a Commission of Inquiry” to shed light on pedophile priests. Rete l’Abuso, with President Francesco Zanardi, wrote an open letter to the President of the CEI, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, in the aftermath of the Day of Prayer for the Victims of Sexual Abuse by the Clergy. “Most Reverend Excellency, – writes Zanardi addressing the president of the Bishops – three thousand Catholic priests in France have raped 216,000 children, if we then add the induced around the parishes, we arrive at about 330 thousand. We are also left with only 3,000 priests found guilty of 216,000. rape of children, if we take an average the mathematics says that each priest raped 72 children. We ignore how many times. All this in France, on an average basis of only 22,000 priests, 3,000 were found to have raped minors “. The President of the Network, the abuse returns to the Italian situation: “As you well know, in Italy the average number of priests is about 50 thousand and, if the situation is like in all other nations, we find on the basis of religious, data online as reconfirm the CIASE commission, I ask you: Do you think you can say that in Italy there is no need for a commission of inquiry because the phenomenon is negligible? I reminded the victims that ‘faith, without works is dead’ and that ‘Those who scandalize even one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone turned from a donkey hung around his neck, and was thrown into the abyss of the sea ‘”. Hence the requests of the victims of abuse to Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti:” Here there is no need to pray your Excellency, you have to investigate and pay, not only economically with the compensation to those who have suffered, but also the punishment for those who have committed. A few minutes in a trivial apology prayer cannot be enough, and not even a confession, unless this is before a magistrate. Therefore, while we appreciate the umpteenth prayer, respectfully, on behalf of the entire Italian organization of the survivors of the sexual abuse of the clergy Rete L’Abuso, victims of the more than 160 priests held definitively responsible in Italy, and of the others more of 150 currently reported (naturally among the only known in Italy, in addition to the bishops covered up) we do not hide the fact that we would have preferred the proposal of a concrete and responsible act, which humanly compensated the survivors and also the Church in its concrete repentance, as happens in the other countries “. The president of the Network l’Abuso observes:” We do not feel conscious of being able to accept your homage, even while abroad, instead of sticking our heads in the sand as the Italian Episcopal Conference is doing, the episcopal conferences they investigate and sell their properties to compensate the victims. So Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Understand why we cannot accept from you such, yet another act of cowardice, as something positive and not hypocritical, totally useless both for the prevention and the cause, and for a possible re-evaluation of the Italian Church ” .