The commitment to defense of the little onesweak, last is one a typically evangelical prerogative that is always current and, unfortunately, never surpassed. Children victims of pedophiliapaedocrime, online pedophilia and every form of abuse, in fact, even if often silenced, it is a huge plague and among the most heinous crimes which is increasingly coming out into the open.
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To contribute in the fight against any abuse, even in the ecclesial reality, experts collaborate both from a legal point of view and from a psychological and social point of view. In a context in which the culture of care and prevention are developed patchily, the response that, at a widespread level, emerges from every Italian diocese, also involves us as a reality of southern Italy.
When networking is not just an opportunity, but an urgency
Call to coordinate the Diocesan Service for the Protection of Minors and Fragile People (Sdtm) of the diocese of Reggio Calabriatogether with the Commission that collaborates in this service we have given ourselves as priority commitmentOf convey and promote information, training and prevention in parish, pastoral, school and recreational contexts starting from our ecclesial reality, without excluding the possibility of contacts and comparisons with other non-ecclesial associative realities, as well as participation in local civil institutional tables, to build networks of solidarity and collaboration in the common fight against every type of abuse.
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If we think that the results of the latest territorial surveys indicate places of greatest fragility, after the family, the school, oratories or parishes and sports facilities, we realize that networking is not just an opportunity, but an emergency. We are also aware that the absence of a complaint does not mean absence of the problem.
Towards the diocesan conference on 26 and 27 June
To answer this next June 26th and 27th all pastoral workers will be summoned, starting from the lay people most involved with minors and families, and from the priests, in a diocesan conference whose eloquent theme is “Let’s take care of ourselves” that starts one culture of care and preventioneven in our territories.
Welcoming, listening, protecting, preventing, training must be the key words that confidently guide those who take care of the victims, so that they find safe points of reference in them, to emerge from oblivion and silence towards every fragility.
Shared commitment to protect minors and the most vulnerable
The Italian Church has undertaken a path to protect minors and vulnerable adults which in the last three years has seen teams of experts set up throughout the territorythe vast majority of whom are lay people, to testify to their increasingly important role in this ecclesial service.
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The ecclesial and social community must be increasingly dedicated to protecting with an essential and constant commitment the little ones, those loved by the Lordso that the Church, as Pope Francis says in his speech on 7 March to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors «is always and everywhere a place where everyone can feel at home and every person is considered sacred».
* Reggio Calabria diocese minor protection service
