of secrecy. nuns throughout the world abused and even held as sexual slaves by priests and bishops faced with a growing international outcry about the latest scandal to rock the catholic church the pope could no longer remain silent. you know the mistreatment of women is a problem. i would say that humility has not yet matured. women are second class citizens that s where it starts us it is a cultural problem. of the problem of. a cultural problem that the holy see itself isn t immune to the vatican has reportedly long known about nuns being sexually abused by priests and done next to nothing to address the matter it was first publicly acknowledged as a structural issue by the vatican magazine women church world. basically the
a cultural problem that the holy see itself isn t immune to the vatican has reportedly long known about nuns being sexually abused by priests and done next to nothing to address the matter it was first publicly acknowledged as a structural issue by the vatican magazine women church world. basically the church has a great tradition and habit of not seeing women at things they don t exist they don t count then this is a mentality that is resistant to all changes and there s another problem many of these women have been forced to have abortions with money from the church bishops and priests have paid that this is a very bad thing for a church that fights abortion and this is dramatic. last year various media outlets and clerical women s organizations started denouncing the culture of silence and
a different identity for themselves and this is why they can t speak out because you should be inside the convent siddhant half the support to report the perpetrators and to get justice done what would share what ideally like to see happen now but i would ideally like to see that the perpetrators who are already known to the vatican i being persecuted i would like to see that the victims who are already now known to the vatican get some kind of a recruiting station and i would like to that more research is being done independent research all over the boat on these cases how are you doing now well on the one hand i m happy these cases have come out and the pope has admitted that and there is much attention to these cases right now on the other hand i m right doubtful as to what is going to happen but at least if picking about these cases and i hope this helps more victims realize what has happened to them and come
vatican already in the one nine hundred ninety s. and it was known pavlik the at least since two thousand and one and nothing ever happened and i m really skeptical of whether anything is going to happen now but at least a pope has admitted these cases exist. how difficult is it after all that you just shared with us is it to speak out about this issue. i would say for many for many nuns it is next to impossible to ever speak about these cases because they re so dependent on the system they re so dependent financially there are none so cannot be if they re convents because they re financially dependent they cannot put up and i thought their own on their own and they re also spiritually dependent on the convent you know their whole life the whole idea of themselves they have the book ation it depends on the convent and this religious system and they have no means to create
november while visiting from australia where he has refugee status and could face a long jail term if extradited to behaving. a four story building has collapsed in a residential area of the egyptian city of look sort killing three people the victims were two egyptian gross and a female german tourist who was walking past the building at least thirteen others were injured including a german man. a the catholic church has been hit by yet another abuse scandal for the first time pope francis has acknowledged that high ranking members of the clergy have sexually abused and raped nuns france s admitted suspending priests and bishops for abusing women and promised to do more to eradicate the problem in a moment we ll hear from a german nun who was abused herself but first this report on the vatican s culture