Pope Francis highlighted the work done by Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston (USA) who spoke boldly to warn of the worrying increase in cases of abuse committed by members of the Church.
As Pope Francis recalled in an interview with Cope, years ago, when he was a priest, in the streets of Buenos Aires, some parents called on their son not to approach him because he was dressed as a priest and could be a pedophile .
Faced with the Catholic Church’s effort to eradicate the scourge of pedophilia and pedophilia, Pope Francis acknowledged the work of Cardinal Sean O’Malley, “who began to speak of this with courage, though it was a stepping stone to the organization, long before the organization was made on this issue. “
“It was up to him to fix the matter in Boston and it was not easy at all. Very clear steps have been taken on this,” he said.
In addition, the Pope said that “the Commission for the Defense of Minors, which was the invention of Cardinal O’Malley, is working today.”
It is also expected that in the coming months half of the members of this commission will be changed “because every three years half is renewed. Freshwater people from several different countries with problems of these. And I think they play well.” .
Faced with this tremendous scourge, Pope Francis stressed that the devil is the instigator of child pornography. “Abusing a boy to film a child pornography act is demonic. It cannot be explained without the presence of the devil,” he stressed.
And in the face of the struggle to eradicate the sexual abuse of the Church, Pope Francis said that remedy is being made, “things are being done well. In fact, progress has been made and more and more progress is being made. Now, it is a global and serious problem. “
He also questioned how “certain governments” allow the production of child pornography. “Let them not say that it is not known. Today with the intelligence services everything is known. A government knows who in their country produces child pornography. For me this is one of the most monstrous things I have seen,” he said. .
Pope Francis also assured during the interview to Cope that he fears “educated devils.” “Those who ring your doorbell, ask you for permission, come into your house, make friends,” he said.
In this sense he recalled the words of Jesus in which “when the unclean spirit comes out of a man, when someone becomes or changes his life, he goes and begins to turn around, in arid places, he gets bored. .. and after a while he says “I’m going back to see how that is,” and he sees the house all tidy, all changed. Then he looks for seven worse than him and enters with a different attitude. “
“That is why I say that it is the educated devils, the ones who ring the bell. The ingenuity of this person lets him in and the end of this man is worse than the beginning, says the Lord. I am afraid of the educated devils. They are the worse, and one is deceived a lot. One is deceived a lot “, he assured.