Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich took center stage in at the Vatican today, proposing a potential answer to a problem that has not been solved in the Roman Catholic Church in America.
As the Vatican Summit on sex abuse enters its third day, transparency became a major topic of discussion. Transparency – and the frank acknowledgement that the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal seriously damaged the credibility the church and its bishops in leadership. On Saturday morning, strong words came from Sister Veronica Openibo of Nigeria as she called out church leadership for hypocrisy. »We proclaim the Ten Commandments, » Openibo said. « Why did we keep silent for so long? »Cardinal Reinhart Marx, of Germany, was also direct in his criticism. »The rights of abuse victims were trampled underfoot, » Marx said. Marx also said that in an era of rapidly-spreading information on social media, the Church’s attempts to protect itself raises suspicions of a cover-up. »… Transparency has to be the way we handle things and deal with things, here, but it also has to invade all of our procedures, » said Chicago’s Cardinal Blasé Cupich in an interview Friday.
