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| March 28, 2010 | Hindus ask Pope to issue white paper on global Church sex scandal | |
Nevada (US): Hindus want Pope to urgently come up with a white paper on reportedly mushrooming global sex scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic Church, which they called 'unprecedented and shocking'. Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a
statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that this authoritative paper should truthfully
address the reported worldwide sexual abuse crisis the Church was facing; and
then list the solutions, action program and implementation schedule. A monitoring
body should also be established for future. Zed, who is president of Universal
Society of Hinduism, further said that instead of church officials pointing fingers
at the "hostile media", consumerism, and secularism; His Holiness Pope Benedict
XVI should publicly acknowledge the reported past mistakes of the Church on this
issue, apologize, and clarify his personal role in the crisis. He pointed out
that stonewalling could not go on forever to handle such a big Church credibility
crisis. It was now time to abandon the institutional self-protection and embrace
accountability and transparency. Vatican should come out of its bureaucratic web
and reset its priorities and undertake complete reform. Meanwhile Bhavna Shinde
of Forum for Hindu Awakening says that it is opportune moment for the Vatican
to become really serious and committed to cleanse the Church. As warnings were
reportedly ignored in the past, it has now landed at Pope's doorstep, she adds. |
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