(29 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manila, Philippines – 29 January 2025
1. Wide of Anne Barrett Doyle, Co-Director of Bishopaccountability.ORG, at podium during press conference
2. Banner on wall
3. Mid of journalist
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Barrett Doyle, Co-Director of Bishopaccountability.ORG:
“We want victims to know that there are people in the Philippines who will give them vigorous support. We would like, I know it’s audacious for outsiders to come in to another person’s country and say this but we would like to urge Philippine prosecutors to consider doing what their colleagues around the world have done and investigate dioceses and religious orders for coverup.”
5. Wide of press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Barrett Doyle, Co-Director of BishopAccountability.ORG.
“(Philippine bishops) feel entitled to their silence. They feel entitled to withhold information about sexual violence toward minors. They feel entitled to defend accused priests.”
7. Mid of journalist
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Barrett Doyle, Co-Director of BishopAccountability.ORG.
“Secrecy only benefits the perpetrators. Secrecy equals complicity.”
9. Wide of press conference
STORYLINE:
A United States-based watchdog on Wednesday launched an online database on over 80 Roman Catholic priests who have been accused of sexually abusing minors in the Philippines.
The Philippines is the third-largest Roman Catholic nation in the world and public discussions of sexual assaults by members of the clergy, who are revered especially in rural regions, has long been generally muted.
The nonprofit said it has also set up such online databases on alleged clergy abuses in the U.S. Argentina, Chile and Ireland.
Anne Barrett Doyle, a director of the BishopAccountability.ORG, said the long silence of bishops in the Philippines, the third largest Catholic nation in the world, encouraged sexual assaults by members of the clergy.
She asked Philippine prosecutors to investigate church officials, who failed to report abuses.
“Philippine bishops feel entitled to their silence. They feel entitled to withhold information about sexual violence toward minors. They feel entitled to defend accused priests,” Doyle said in a news conference.
“Secrecy only benefits the perpetrators. Secrecy equals complicity," she said.
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