Vatican official says Church was wrong to remain silent on children of priests The president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences applauds Pope Francis and Benedict XVI for making a break with previous silence on the fate of clergy s kids
Father Bernard Ardura, December 1, 2015. (Photo by M.MIGLIORATO/CPP/CIRIC)
Father Bernard Ardura, president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, has admitted that the Catholic Church made a mistake in the past by trying to conceal the issue of priests who fathered children. The Church, in the period prior to ours, like all the other institutions of our societies, carefully avoided publicly addressing anything that touched on the behavior of its members, behavior that it certainly disavowed, but on which it kept silent, surely out of shame, but also for fear of losing confidence, writes Ardura in a three-page analysis of the Church s attitude towards children father by priests that was quietly published in
Le silence de l Église sur les enfants de prêtres « fut une erreur », selon un comité du Vatican
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Le Vatican reconnaît que le silence sur les enfants de prêtres a été une erreur
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A Vatican office has acknowledged that the Catholic Church erred over previous decades in asking its members to keep silent when they heard about priests fathering children. Before our times, the Church did like most institutions and avoided addressing publicly matters regarding its members behavior, about which it kept silent, Norbertine Fr. Bernard Ardura, president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, said in a document published last week. This was a mistake, which can be explained by the context, but it remains a mistake, said Ardura. Vincent Doyle, the child of a priest and the leader of Coping International, a global campaign for the recognition of priests children (Provided photo)