Pope Francis: Solution to the Church Abuse Scandal is for People to Shut Up
By The Daily Caller News Foundation
by Joshua Gill
Pope Francis said Monday that the remedy to the groups clamoring about the church’s abuse scandals and recent cover-up allegations is prayer and more silence.
Francis made the comments during his Monday homily at Mass in the Vatican, following not only the fallout over Pennsylvania’s grand jury report on sɛҳuąƖ abuse in six dioceses, but also rising furor over Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano’s allegations that Francis and others covered up reports of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s alleged sɛҳuąƖ abuses.
Francis told reporters last week that we would “not say a word” about the allegations and seemed to recommend a similar approach of silence for those attending his homily.
“With people who do not have good will, with people who seek only scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction, even within families,” the solution is “silence. And prayer,” Francis said, according to Crux Now.
Francis compared the church’s current situation to a scene from the Gospel of Luke in which Jews in the ѕуηαgσgυє were “filled with fury” over Jesus’ teachings and drove him out of the city.
The gospel writer says that they “rose up, drove [Jesus] out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill… to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them and went away.”
Francis claimed that those who drove Jesus out of the city were “a pack of wild dogs,” not people, as they forsook reason and gave into anger.
He also equated it with Jesus’ response of silence to those who demanded his crucifixion.
Christian faithful should therefore, according to Francis, remain silent in the face of those who won’t see the truth.
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