(18 Nov 2024)
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Rome, Italy – 18 November 2024
1. Wide of the press conference room
2. Close of the Ending Clergy Abuse logo projected on screen
3. Banner of Zero Tolerance global campaign on ground
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Hans Zollner, heads the church’s main academic think tank on safeguarding:
“The work of our institute at the Gregorian is meant to really build on what the survivors ask us to do, demand that has been done, so the young people today and for the future are as safe as possible. Safe spaces, safe relationships can only be built, and safe processes, once we know how abuse took place, how cover up was possible and continued for so long.”
5. Close of sexual abuse survivors pictures and banners from the Zero Tolerance campaign
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Buchanan, Ending Clergy Abuse founding member and human rights consultant:
“We are in a pivotal moment where we can change the trajectory of the lives of children in the church and throughout society. Church can take a leadership role. Because of the lack of care and trauma I experienced in childhood, because of the clergy sex abuse I experienced, I was never able to have children. So I carry with me a photo of my one-year-old self as a constant reminder of why this work is important. No child should ever experience sexual violence, especially in the church. It is in our hands to make sure no one does.”
7. Close of Zero Tolerance campaign banner on the ground
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gemma Hickey, Ending Clergy Abuse president:
“Clergy sexual abuse is not a relic of the past, it is an on-going, ever-present danger. While countries around the world have begun to act, investigating, issuing reports, and despite countless exposes in the media and ongoing legal battles led by brave survivors, the church continues to lag, learning nothing from the mistakes of the past. New reports of abuse by the clergy continue to emerge, but for every case that is brought to light, countless others remain in the shadows.”
9. Close of cross with wording written on reading (English): "Zero Tolerance"
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Janet Aguti, Ending Clergy Abuse vice-president:
“We still struggle a lot with the issue of sexual violence in general and this, like I said, most especially committed by the church will never appear in the news or even have some of the records at the police station. In my organisation, however much we try to encourage the communities to report it is a struggle down home. However, the world has committed to keeping the children safe and the church needs to do the same.”
11. Various of St. Peter’s Basilica seen from Rome
STORYLINE:
Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002, arguing that there’s no reason why children around the world shouldn’t be kept just as safe from predator priests.
The U.S. norms, adopted at the height of the abuse scandal there, say a priest will be permanently removed from church ministry based on even a single act of sexual abuse that is either admitted to or established under church law.
That “one strike and you’re out” policy in the U.S. has long stood out as the toughest in the church. It is held up by some as the gold standard, by others as excessive and by still others as imperfect but better than most.
It was adopted by U.S. bishops as they scrambled to try to retain credibility following the revelations of abuse and cover-up in Boston documented by the Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” series.
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