Boys and girls in the Center of Protection
Representatives from different institutions and Religious Congregations, on October 29, met in the Embassy of Spain before the Holy See in Rome, placing the child in the center of the protection of minors and as first line of direction, during the act of presentation of the book “Break the Silence, ten faces, ten voices” that the witness gathers from ten educators from different countries as to how they live the task carried out and the commitment of the Marist Institution, in order to advance in the protection of children. The book has been written by the journalists Imma Amadeo and Jordi Martínez, and edited by Edelvives.
Present was Cardinal Santos Abril, Archpriest of the Basilica Saint Mary Major, as President of the act; and of the Ambassadress of Spain before the Holy See, Carmen de la Peña Corcuera, and participation of Mons. José Rodríguez Carballo, Secretary of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Hans Zollner, President of the Center for the Protection of Children from the Gregorian University, Emili Turù, Secretary General of the USG (Union of Superiors General – men) and the authors of the book, besides representatives from different religious Orders and Congregations and diplomatic representatives.
Zollner stressed the need of permanent listening to the victims as a way of prevention and in the denouncing of a reality that exceeds two million boys, who suffer abuses in the world and he pointed out emphasizing the need of involvement of the whole society “because it is a problem that concerns all”. The President of the Center for the Protection of Children of the Gregorian University insisted on “the need of working in nets by all the Congregations. We should work in nets”, he said.
Following this same line Mons. Carballo summarized the action of the Church in three concepts, “we should focalize the work of protection of children and of attention to the victims accepting, accompanying and reconstructing. It is here where we should center ourselves”. The Secretary of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life stressed the importance of pardon as a tool for the rehabilitation of the victims”
‘Romper el Silencio, diez rostros, diez voces’ shows according to a global vision, ten witnesses who in different fields and from their intimate and personal experience, explain the work that they carry out for the prevention and protection of sexual abuse, the Marist educational works. A task that passes through formation, accompaniment, sensibility, empowerment, and for facing obstacles and the questions that derive. It is the question of the witness of ten professional witnesses, who from their point of view and reality face the task of working in favor of the prevention and protection of boys and young people in different countries and contexts.