Author: NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/06/2025 | 11:47:02
AI Summary:
Pope Leo XIV affirmed that priests must be celibate and insisted that bishops take “firm and decisive” action to deal with sex abusers. Leo met with about 400 bishops and cardinals from 38 countries attending this week’s special Holy Year celebrations for clergy. It’s an issue the former Cardinal Robert Prevost would have long pondered given his role as the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops. Leo said there should be no tolerance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse. He identified sexual and spiritual abuses, as well as abuses of authority and power. Francis had also reaffirmed celibacy for Latin rite priests. But he refused appeals from Amazonian bishops to allow married priests to address priest shortage.
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Isn’t this the guy who said priests would be defrocked for turning in child rapists?
