As Vatican summit on sexual abuse yields few concrete measures, Kerala's survivors face anxious future

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Gita Aravamudan Feb 28, 2019 09:35:23 IST

Pope Francis’s four-day conclave last week in Rome, to address the issue of rampant sexual abuse in the church, was billed as a landmark event. As senior church officials from all over the world flocked to the Vatican, there was hope that the church would — this time round — offer more than empty reassurances.

Outside the gates of the conclave, hundreds of survivors of abuse, rape, assault stood waiting, as also the children of "celibate" priests, who wanted some form of acknowledgement or recompense for the trauma they had endured...https://www.firstpost.com/...

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