Vatican City, Mar 8, 2010 / 12:54 pm
“Enough! There needs to be a serious house cleaning in our Church. And the Pope is not just going to stand by and watch.” These were the words of Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, that were printed in the pages of Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper on Saturday.
The German cardinal’s strong words followed Friday’s news of abuse in the Diocese of Regensburg’s boy’s choir.
“Sexual abuses of minors by representatives of the clergy are criminal acts, shameful, inadmissible mortal sins,” he said in the interview. They are “ignoble actions, among the darkest of the Church.”
Cardinal Kasper declared his support for Pope Benedict XVI's intention to bring all cases to light and clarify them with zero tolerance "towards those who stain themselves with such grave sins.”