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In his customary press conference aboard the return flight to Rome from Lisbon, Pope Francis spoke to reporters about a range of issues.
As you all know, in a very private setting, I received a group of people who had been abused. As I always do in these cases, we talked about this plague, this terrible scandal. In the Church, we followed more or less the same behaviour that is currently followed in families and neighbourhoods: we cover it up... We think that 42% of abuse takes place in families or neighbourhoods. We still have to mature and help discover these things.
There are also other types of abuse that cry out to heaven: the abuse of child labour, the abuse of child labour, and it is used; the abuse of women, no? Even today, in many countries, surgery is still done on little girls: their clitoris is removed, and that is today, and it is done with a razor, and goodbye... Cruelty... And the abuse of labour, that is within sexual abuse, which is serious, and all that: there is a culture of abuse that humanity must review and must undergo a conversion.
Young people don't have a long attention span. Think about it: if you make a clear speech with an idea, an image, an affection, they can follow you for eight minutes. Incidentally, in, my first Apostolic Exhortation, I wrote a long, long chapter on the homily. Here there is a parish priest In some small towns, I don't know about Termoli, men go out for a cigarette and come back. The Church must convert to this aspect of the homily: short, clear, with a clear message, and affectionate.
No. No, on this it's a policy. I am visiting small European countries. The big countries, Spain, France, England, I'll leave them for later, at the end. But as an option I started with Albania and so I did with other small ones. It's nothing. France, two cities: Strasbourg and Marseille.Holy Father, in Lisbon you told us that in the Church there is room for everyone, everyone, everyone.
The ministeriality of the Church is another thing. [It is] the manner of carrying forward the flock. And in ministeriality, one of the important things is patience: accompanying people step by step on their way to maturity. Each one of us has this experience: that Mother Church has accompanied us and accompanies us in our own path of maturation.
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