Young people are tired of Pharisees, we need fathers,' synod observer says

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‘Young people are tired of Pharisees, we need fathers,’ synod observer says​

BY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

• October 13, 2018

VATICAN – The Catholic Church must be a place of justice and mercy, and its members must be catalysts for change, some young observers said at the Synod of Bishops Oct. 11.

“. . . the church must first be a place of justice and mercy for our young people,” said Joseph Moeono-Kolio from Samoa, who was representing the Caritas Internationalis Youth Forum and young people from the Pacific Islands.

He asked . . . what young people could to do about uprooting injustice from the world “when we can’t do it within our own churches?”

The problem of clerical sexual abuse and corruption are present in his region, he said, but “reporting it or even speaking of it here is professional and cultural suicide.”

“Young people are tired of Pharisees, we need fathers,” he said. . . .

'Young people are tired of Pharisees, we need fathers,' synod observer says

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Not just Samoa.

Guam has had “issues” with “hirelings” abusing boys and men.

Update: After Vatican verdict, Guam archbishop apologizes for predecessor’s ‘harm’​

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

3.19.2018 10:10 AM ET

CNS/Paul Haring

A Vatican tribunal found Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana, Guam, guilty of sexual abuse of minors. Archbishop Apuron is pictured in a 2012 photo at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) See VATICAN-APURON-VERDICT March 16, 2018.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Publicly apologizing on behalf of the whole archdiocese for the “grave harm” caused by former Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana, Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes said a new chapter of humility, repentance and healing has opened for the Catholic Church in Guam following a Vatican verdict against his predecessor.

“I called and still call upon all Catholics on Guam to intensify their prayers and with great humility, offer sacrifice for the grave harm and sins which we have experienced or have enabled in our church,” Archbishop Byrnes said during a news conference in Guam March 18.

“We hang our heads in shame for the grave evil one member inflicted upon others, in this case the most vulnerable,” he said in remarks, which were later released in a written statement.

"Our prayers for the victims of child abuse by Bishop Apuron and all victims of abuse . . .

https://www.catholicnews.com/update-n-j-priest-at-vatican-removed-in-2018-was-accused-of-abuse-in-2003/

This seems to be virtually a worldwide problem.

The condemnations above are augmented considering this is coming from a Catholic Bishop.

This molestation of our boys, men (our poor seminarians), and girls and women by our own churchmen has to stop!