When Pope Francis makes his trip to Asia's youngest country, East Timor, it will make him the second pope to visit after John Paul in 1989, and the first since the country gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
A billboard welcoming Pope Francis stands above a mural honoring Bishop Belo and three others as national heros in Dili, East Timor , Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. A girl stands for a photograph in front of the Virgin Mary Statue in Dili, East Timor , Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. A staff walks outside the prison facility where defrocked American priest Richard Daschbach is serving his 12-year sentence for sex abuse, in East Timor , in Dili, East Timor , Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024.
Experts say that if Francis chooses to tackle the issue head-on and apologize to the largely-ignored victims, it could be a landmark moment of his papacy.Pope Francis is visiting East Timor after a clergy abuse scandal, but will he address it? Lingsma also helped bring to light the case of missionary Richard Daschbach to light with a report in 2019.
More broadly, the church’s opposition to Indonesia’s military occupation and support for the resistance over years of bloody fighting that saw as many as 200,000 people killed, is so respected that it is even noted in the preamble to the young country’s constitution.
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