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Child abuse is 22 May 2021
Child abuse amounts to “psychological murder” and the “erasure of childhood”, Pope Francis said on Saturday morning, 15 May, as he addressed members of the Italian “Meter” Association whom he received in audience in the Clementine Hall. It is the duty of all states to “identify both traffickers and abus-ers”, he stressed. The following is a translation of the Holy Father’s remarks, which he delivered in Italian.