【BBC 20140118】本笃十六世在两年中解除了400名牧师的职务

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【中文标题】本笃十六世在两年时间里解除了将近400名牧师的职务
【原文标题】Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests in two years
【登载媒体】BBC
【原文作者】David Willey
【原文链接】http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25788864


在短短两年时间里，将近400名牧师被前任教皇本笃十六世以虐待儿童的罪名被解职。梵蒂冈确认了这一消息。

据美联社得到的一份文件，2011年和2012年的数字与往年相比有了大幅度的上升。

这份文件是梵蒂冈参加星期四联合国听证会的一部分材料。

这是圣座第一次公开面对牧师性虐儿童的指控。

教堂官员在日内瓦的听证会上遭到了无数尖锐问题的炮轰，包括为什么隐瞒这些数字，有什么措施来避免未来这类问题的出现。

受害者声援团说教堂对这类信息的披露依然不够透明。

“教堂之耻”

梵蒂冈发言人费德里克•龙巴迪起初说美联社的报告基于对数据的错误解读。

但他后来收回这项声明，向BBC确认报告是真实的。

目前最新的数据显示，2011年和2012年被解职的牧师数量是2008年和2009年171人的一倍，梵蒂冈在2008年开始提供这个数据。

美联社报道，梵蒂冈还将另外400多起案件移交教堂执法院和行政部处理。

本笃在2005年上任，牧师性虐儿童的事件是他任期中最大的丑闻。


梵蒂冈起初否认报告的内容，但后来确认了这个数字。

潮水般涌来的起诉、控诉和官方报告在2009年和2010年达到高峰，观察人士称这或许和文件中牧师被解职的高峰期相吻合。

圣座是联合国大会儿童权利协议的签署人，这份文件在法律上确保缔约国保护社会中的弱势群体。

这份协议在1990年被大会批准，但是在1994年发布了一份报告之后，再也没有任何进展，直到2012年欧洲性虐丑闻爆发。

上个月，梵蒂冈拒绝了联合国儿童权利大会对受害儿童数字的要求，原因是这类信息只能向其它走法律程序的国家透露。

本笃的继任者方济各在周四的一次布道中说，性虐丑闻是“教堂之耻”。

他在12月份宣布将成立一个梵蒂冈委员会，彻底清除教堂中的性虐儿童现象。



原文：

The Vatican initially rejected the report, but later confirmed the figures.

Close to 400 priests were defrocked in only two years by the former Pope Benedict XVI over claims of child abuse, the Vatican has confirmed.

The statistics for 2011 and 2012 show a dramatic increase compared with previous years, according to a document obtained by the Associated Press (AP).

The file was part of Vatican data collected for a UN hearing on Thursday.

It was the first time the Holy See was publicly confronted over the sexual abuse of children by clergy.

Church officials at the hearing in Geneva faced a barrage of hard questions covering why they were withholding data and what they were doing to prevent future abuse.

Victims' advocates complained there was still too little transparency.

'Shame of the Church'

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi initially said the AP report had been based on a mistaken reading of data.

But he later retracted his statement, confirming to the BBC that the story was correct.

The latest statistics reveal the number of priests defrocked in 2011 and 2012 was more than double the 171 priests removed in 2008 and 2009, when the Vatican first provided figures.

The Vatican also sent another 400 cases to either be tried by a Church tribunal or to be dealt with administratively, AP reports.

Benedict, who was elected in 2005, took the helm as the scandal of child sex abuse by priests was breaking.

The Vatican initially rejected the report, but later confirmed the figures
The flood of allegations, lawsuits and official reports into clerical abuse reached a peak in 2009 and 2010, which observers say may explain the spike shown in the document.

The Holy See is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a legally binding instrument which commits it to protecting and nurturing the most vulnerable in society.

It ratified the convention in 1990 but after an implementation report in 1994 it did not submit any progress reports until 2012, following revelations of child sex abuse in Europe and beyond.

Last month, the Vatican refused a request from the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child for data on abuse, on the grounds that it only released such information if requested to do so by another country as part of legal proceedings.

In a homily on Thursday, Benedict's successor, Pope Francis, called abuse scandals "the shame of the Church".

He announced in December that a Vatican committee would be set up to fight sexual abuse of children in the Church.

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