(27 Sep 2024)
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Leuven, Belgium – 27 September 2024
1. Various of Pope Francis greeting people from "popemobile"
2. Mid of crowd with phones
3. Track left of Pope greeting people from popemobile
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sofia Gonzalez, crowd member:
"I think that he is quite a sweet old man, it is what I expected, older global religious leader, it was what i expected."
5. SOUNDBITE (Engllish) Robert Van Hoof, Leuven resident:
"Well, how often do you see the pope in your own hometown? So, that was the most important part, but also he is a very important figure as a head of state of Vatican city and head of the Catholic church. So it’s cool to see him pass by, that was the main reason."
6. Pope Francis greeted by KU Leuven University rector Luc Sels
7. Close of photographer
8. Various of Pope entering university
9. Pope signing memory book
10. Pope during meeting with university officials
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis greeted crowds in Leuven in Belgium on Friday, on the same day the king, prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him all publicly criticised the Catholic Church.
The criticisms included the church’s cover-up of clergy sexual abuse to its refusal to respond to demands of women and LGBTQ+ Catholics for a place in the church.
Francis met with the people most harmed by the Catholic Church in Belgium — the men and women who were raped and molested by priests as children and the single mothers who were forced to give up their newborns for adoption to avoid the stigma of raising them out of wedlock.
Luc Sels, the rector of Leuven Catholic University, told the pope that the abuse scandals had so weakened the church’s moral authority that it would do well to reform, to the point of ordaining women as priests, if it wants to regain its relevance.
Through it all, Francis expressed his remorse, begged forgiveness and promised to do everything possible to make sure such abuses never occur again.
“This is our shame and humiliation,” he said in his first public remarks on Belgian soil.
Pope Francis is on a four day trip to Luxembourg and Belgium.
AP video by Mark Carlson
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