(29 Sep 2024)
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King Beaudoin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium – 29 September 2024
1. Wide of Pope Francis inside King Beaudoin Stadium in Popemobile
2. Mid of Pope in Popemobile waving to crowd
3. Close of Pope Francis waving to crowd
4. Various of Pope and crowd
5. Pope in Popemobile waving to crowd
6. Pope preparing for mass
7. Mid of altar procession
8. Wide of Pope seated
9. Wide of crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel (no surname given), from France, (reacting to the Pope’s condemnation of sexual abuse and cover-up by the Church):
"Yes. That’s obvious today to say so. I think it’s clear that he should made it very clear that it’s not acceptable. Today’s Christians are well aware now, understand and support that."
11. Pan from Pope booklet to man
12. Wide of faithful
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Agnes (no surname given), from Brussels, (reacting to the Pope’s call for peace):
”I have friends in Lebanon, and I pray for Lebanon and for Palestine and Israel. I pray for the peace. Each day, I pray for peace.”
14. Mid of faithful
15. Close up Vatican flag
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul von Wedel, German with permanent residency in Brussels:
”I think his answer is clear, that we should take care of this abuse, like, we cannot have this situation. I think his message is quite simple in that way. Like, there’s no tolerance. But it’s also a message of peace and love to us and to the world. And I think.. and even if the thing itself is not easy, of course, his message, I think, is the right one. “
17. Mid of audience
18. Wide of mass
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis demanded on Sunday that sexually abusive clergy be judged and their bishops stop covering up their crimes as he ended a troubled visit to Belgium by responding to the outrage over the scandal there that has devastated the church’s credibility.
“Evil must not be hidden. Evil must be brought out into the open,” Francis told some 30,000 people at Belgium’s sports stadium, drawing applause repeatedly as the crowd took in what he was saying.
Francis deviated from his prepared homily to respond to the meeting he held with 17 abuse survivors on Friday night, where he heard first-hand of the trauma and suffering they endured and the tone-deaf response of the church when they reported the crimes.
Belgium has had a wretched legacy of abuse and cover-up, none more symbolic of the church’s hypocrisy than the case of Bruges Bishop Roger Vangheluwe.
He was allowed to quietly retire in 2010 after he admitted that he had sexually abused his nephew for 13 years.
Francis only defrocked him this year – 14 years later – in a move clearly seen as finally dealing with a problem before his arrival in Belgium.
"I think it’s clear that he should made it very clear that it’s not acceptable. Today’s Christians are well aware now, understand and support that," said a French national who attended Sunday’s mass.
"I think his message is quite simple in that way. Like, there’s no tolerance," said another member of the congregation that filled the King Beaudoin Stadium.
Francis’ visit to Belgium was always going to be difficult, given the country’s history of clerical sexual abuse and overall secularizing trends which have emptied its majestic cathedrals and churches.
But it’s unclear if he or his entourage expected such sharp public expressions of outrage or the pointed calls for reform from Belgium’s intellectual elite.
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