Cosmetic changes, delay and debt of the State: the balance of survivors, lay and experts 4 years after the Pope's visit - the counter

Effervescence was not seen in the streets and postcards were not expected.Pope Francis's visit to Chile ended very far from what was expected by the Catholic Church.In the first line of his tour, bishops participated, including Juan Barros, at that time Bishop of Osorno, a figure questioned for years, accused of being one of the main cover -ups and operators of Fernando Karadima in the commission of sexual crimes.

In 2015, the journalist Juan Carlos Cruz, complainant of Karadima, was the first to show the role of barros in the Iron Circle of the Expárroco of El Bosque.“Barros was standing there when Karadima abused me and others.He also played and kissed with Karadima ”, was what Cruz denounced that year.

From there in more, Barros never managed to "take the party in peace" and was the center of numerous demonstrations made by the laity of Osorno.In fact, in October 2015, a few months after being appointed bishop, Pope Francis already made the first corporate defense in the Vatican, when, consulted by the deacon Jaime CoirAgainst that bishop he was discredited by a judicial court.So, please do not lose serenity.Osorno suffers, yes, but by silly.Because he does not open his heart to what God says and gets carried away by the macanas that all those people say ”.

The second was made in Chile, in Iquique, on January 18, 2018.He was consulted by Barros and whether or not he gave him his support.Something annoying, the Pope answered.“The day they bring me a test against Bishop Barros, I'm going to talk.There is not a single test against, everything is slander, ”he emphasized.

His phrase reached the Vatican where - in an unusual situation - they questioned him.The president of the commission for the protection of minors, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, questioned Bergoglio's words pointing out that they were "a source of great pain for the survivors of sexual abuse by the clergy or any other criminal".

Two days after his impasse in Chile, Jorge Mario Bergoglio apologized."I must apologize because the word 'proof' has hurt many abused, it was unintentionally," he said.

One of the letters that reacted to the Pope's defense to Barros was that of three of Karadima's complainants - Juan Carlos Cruz, José Andrés Murillo and James Hamilton -, who in a statement described their statements as serious."It is an offensive for us and for all those who have suffered abuse, in particular clerical abuse," he said in part of the writing.

The Pope tried to move quickly and at the end of January of that year announced the sending of an listening and reception commission of complaints, composed of Charles Scicluna and Jordi Bertomeu, which ended with the so -called “Scicluna Report”, which was required by the time later was required by theChilean Justice, without having full access by disposition of the Vatican.

In April, Pope Francis met in the Vatican with Karadima's complainants and in May he did it with all Chilean bishops, who presented their resignation before him.In June, he accepted the first resignations, among which was Juan Barros.The Vatican and the Chilean Catholic Church began to apply abuse and protocols prevention measures.

At the same time, the prosecutor Emiliano Arias opened a series of criminal investigations of numerous cases of sexual abuse, which included, under the cover -up figure, to Cardinals Ricardo Ezzati and Francisco Javier Errázuriz.These cases slowed after they were transferred to other prosecutors.

Cosmetic changes, delay and state debt

After the time, the counter spoke with Helmut Kramer (spokesman for the Network of Abuse Survivors), Juan Carlos Claret (lawyer and one of the laity who led the demonstrations in Osorno) and Marcial Sánchez (expert in the history of the Church).

Helmut Kramer, on behalf of the survivors of ecclesiastical abuse, acknowledged that as a network they have a critical vision of what has happened.“On the part of the Catholic Church there are no root changes in their structures, they maintain a vertical structure that facilitates the conditions for abusers and cover -ups to nest.The Catholic Church has gone to a stage of having cover-up-abusers, to having cover-up coverrs, covering up the cover-up, and Jorge Bergoglio plays that role (...).The abusive relationship by the Church with the survivors is maintained, ”he emphasized.

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In his opinion, “the greatest debt that exists remains the sepulchral silence by the Catholic Church: the passage of the Scicluna Commission collects very valuable information, they take it to the Vatican and keep it under 7 keys and do not allow access to theChilean justice to this information, referring to lies as the victims signed an agreement that the information was in the hands of the Vatican, which is not so ”.

But, in addition to the Church, Kramer whipped the fact that in the Chilean state they are also."He is not yet able to understand his role and his faults in this situation, leaving everything in the hands of the Vatican State, as if a foreign state had to do justice in Chile," he said.

In the case of Juan Carlos Claret, he considered that “the balance of the visit is negative.It was 4 years ago and it is now.The Pope's visit is a trigger for a course of problems, crimes, that the Church had been hiding and that it was impossible to put under the carpet ”.

“The strength of the facts made national and international public opinion turn against them.Francisco had to reculate from his attitude and that generated a speech to apologize, "he said, although he stressed that it was" a communicational speech ".

"The Church remains as dangerous as it was in January 2018," Claret reflected, who stated that, although it was important.He also stressed that the issue of abuse is not a problem of people but structures.

Marcial Sánchez, an expert in church themes, pointed out that this phenomenon cannot be seen in black and white, or in gray.In his opinion, "following that question that was asked at that time (the Pope), all the facts were triggered to this day".

In his vision, “the panorama did change, because he visualized (...), it has changed, not as we would probably have wanted, but it does change, "and also because" people begin to realize a reality that happened within the Catholic Church ".

“Before we had never had a situation like the one we started to live at that time.This was already coming with the Karadima case.The Church and the laity began to realize that it is a serious problem and that the problem had to.On the other hand, the world of the Academy appears, where we began to do studies to see how deep were the background, ”he said.

Sanchez also stressed the delay and that not all bishops are clear about what you have to do."The hierarchy has done everything that has not had to do," he said.But he stressed that in the Vatican there were important changes, such as the Vademécum to apply canonical regulations in cases of sexual abuse and the change of responsibility of the abuser in canon law.

“With the passage of time, we are going to account for the depth of what this Pope has tried to do.Unfortunately, within the Vatican we have very conservative groups that do not want anything to change, ”he added, and postulated that the greatest debt is also in justice, especially after the departure of prosecutor Emiliano Arias.

What is coming

The spokesman for the network of abuse survivors, Helmut Kramer, explained that the work of said group, which was born after this visit of the Pope, extended his work area, also assistance and support for victims of the Sename and institutional environments.They made a complaint before the UN Commission against the torture, so that the Chilean State is questioned regarding these cases.In addition to that, they hope to meet with the president -elect Gabriel Boric, to promote a Truth, Justice and Reparation Commission for the survivors.

Meanwhile, Juan Carlos Claret presented an initiative of constitutional norm in the framework of freedom of worship, but oriented to the faithful "to live their faith without the risk of becoming victims".

“The current situation is not only of tremendous deregulation, which allows abusive and criminal institutions recognized as cults.The State of Chile delivers a lot of prerogatives to these institutions, such as tax exemptions, cultural promotion, financing and that education and care of vulnerable people are entrusted.If a cult wants to become these conditions, the natural thing is to give greater guarantees of the new social pact.If not, to act as a private institution, but do not require the public if it is not available to comply with the minimum social pact, ”he said.