Mexico City, Mexico, Apr 15, 2010 / 15:48 pm
The Bishops' Conference of Mexico praised Pope Benedict XVI this week for his efforts addressing clerical sexual abuse and underscored their own “zero tolerance” for such cases.
The bishops began by acknowledging that in the past, “errors were made by not acting quickly in response to these situations,” and then asked for forgiveness from the victims.
Such sad and painful situations “are cause for penance, conversion and purification in the truth in order to achieve justice,” they continued. “The truth is a way of life whose premise is the recognition of reality.”
“With that we wish to say that we will not oppose investigations by civil authorities ... in these and other cases that have taken place,” the bishops stated.