In September 2010, a 200-page report released by the Belgian church detailed hundreds of incidents, but victims and advocates assert that these findings merely scratched the surface of a much larger scandal.
Pope Francis meets with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde in the Castle of Laeken, Brussels, September 27, 2024. / Photo: AP
Francis applauded at the end of De Croo’s speech and was expected to meet with victims in private later Friday."This is our shame and humiliation,” he said in an improvised response. Two months after Vangheluwe resigned, Belgian police staged what were then unprecedented raids on Belgian church offices, the home of recently retired Archbishop Godfried Danneels, and even the crypt of a prelate — a violation the Vatican decried as “deplorable.”
Significantly, both King Philippe and De Croo made their toughest remarks about abuse in Dutch — the language spoken in the once-staunchly Catholic Flanders where the abuse cases have gained the most notoriety — while the more neutral parts of their speeches were delivered in French and German. “The church must be ashamed and ask for forgiveness and try to resolve this situation with Christian humility and put all the possibilities in places so that this doesn’t happen again,” Francis said."But even if it were only one , it is enough to be ashamed."
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