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| June 13, 2010 | Calling forgiveness begging step in right direction, Hindus urge Pope for white paper on sex scandal | |
Nevada (US): Calling Pope’s forgiveness begging at a Vatican Mass on June 11 a step in right direction, Hindus want Pope to urgently come up with a white paper on global sex scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic Church, which they called unprecedented and shocking. His Holiness Pope Benedict
XVI was concelebrating Mass at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican on June 11 with some
15,000 priests, concluding the Year for Priests. 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, 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. Besides being very crucial to the moral credibility of Catholic
hierarchy, this crisis had also eroded the faith of believers in religion in general
and resulted in their falling confidence. Eyes of the world were at Vatican now
to see how it handled this scandal as Roman Catholics at about 1.17 billion were
the largest single religious group. If asked, Hindus were willing to help Catholics
to plan preventive strategy for the future on this issue, Rajan Zed added. |
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