We must put an end to the ambiguity which consists of receiving with the status of head of state, a dogmatic head of the Church, suddenly a preacher, who defies the laws of the country which invited him.
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Published on 09/29/2024 at 9:08 p.m.
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Rik Deville, the priest at the origin of the revelations about sexual abuse in the church, had this sentence on the morning of the pope’s arrival: “We must be wary of those who say they have a direct line with God. » Prime Minister Alexander De Croo but also visibly the rector of the KUL, the rector of UCLouvain and the Belgian bishops realized this to their cost this weekend. The Pope certainly expressed his “shame” for the “crimes” committed by priests against more than 2,000 Belgian children and his desire that everything be done to ensure that they do not happen again. But above all he came to disrupt the public sphere by repeatedly and publicly putting the rejection and condemnation of abortion “at the center”, after having reduced women to the role of procreator.
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