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(28 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Louvain, Belgium - 28 September 2024
1. Pope France’s motorcade arriving at Louvain Catholic University
2. Pan of public greeting Francis
3. Pope Francis arriving on stage in wheelchair
4. Various of Pope in golf cart greeting public
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Kinzonzi-Lunianga, 24-year-old student:
”I think this is good, and I agree with him (Pope's apology for Belgian priests' sexual misconduct) because of it. I think it's something great to be able to recognize that we did something wrong and just to apologize for it. I think this is really something great and not an easy thing to do, but I think it's a good thing.”
6. Wide of pope in golf cart
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Estefania Cajo, 33-year-old:
“Definitely it's a difficult moment right now, maybe. It's, less and less people who believe every year, but I guess this is a little bit of hope for everyone, yes.”
8. Pope in golf cart leaving event
9. Wide of event
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis was met with a mixed reaction during his visit to Belgium which has been dominated by the Catholic Church's abuse scandal.
Crowds gathered at the the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium's largest French-speaking university, to get a glimpse of the Pope, who promised Saturday to “offer all the help we can” to aid clergy sexual abuse victims.
It came after a group of Belgian survivors told him first-hand of the trauma that had shattered their lives and left many in poverty and mental misery.
"I think it's something great to be able to recognize that we did something wrong and just to apologize for it," said 24-year-old student Emmanuel Kinzonzi-Lunianga.
Both King Philippe and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo blasted the Catholic Church’s dreadful legacy of priests raping and molesting children and its decades-long cover-up of the crimes.
Louvain Catholic University also issued a scathing statement after Francis visited the campus over the Church's exclusion of women.
“UCLouvain expresses its incomprehension and disapproval of the position expressed by Pope Francis regarding the role of women in the church and society,” the statement said, calling the pope’s views “deterministic and reductive.”
Francis' trip to Belgium, ostensibly to celebrate the university’s 600th anniversary, was always going to be difficult, given Belgium’s clergy sexual abuse history and secular trends which have emptied churches in the once-staunchly Catholic country.
The pontiff is on a four day trip to Luxembourg and Belgium.
AP video by Mark Carlson
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(28 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Louvain, Belgium - 28 September 2024
1. Pope France’s motorcade arriving at Louvain Catholic University
2. Pan of public greeting Francis
3. Pope Francis arriving on stage in wheelchair
4. Various of Pope in golf cart greeting public
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Kinzonzi-Lunianga, 24-year-old student:
”I think this is good, and I agree with him (Pope's apology for Belgian priests' sexual misconduct) because of it. I think it's something great to be able to recognize that we did something wrong and just to apologize for it. I think this is really something great and not an easy thing to do, but I think it's a good thing.”
6. Wide of pope in golf cart
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Estefania Cajo, 33-year-old:
“Definitely it's a difficult moment right now, maybe. It's, less and less people who believe every year, but I guess this is a little bit of hope for everyone, yes.”
8. Pope in golf cart leaving event
9. Wide of event
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis was met with a mixed reaction during his visit to Belgium which has been dominated by the Catholic Church's abuse scandal.
Crowds gathered at the the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium's largest French-speaking university, to get a glimpse of the Pope, who promised Saturday to “offer all the help we can” to aid clergy sexual abuse victims.
It came after a group of Belgian survivors told him first-hand of the trauma that had shattered their lives and left many in poverty and mental misery.
"I think it's something great to be able to recognize that we did something wrong and just to apologize for it," said 24-year-old student Emmanuel Kinzonzi-Lunianga.
Both King Philippe and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo blasted the Catholic Church’s dreadful legacy of priests raping and molesting children and its decades-long cover-up of the crimes.
Louvain Catholic University also issued a scathing statement after Francis visited the campus over the Church's exclusion of women.
“UCLouvain expresses its incomprehension and disapproval of the position expressed by Pope Francis regarding the role of women in the church and society,” the statement said, calling the pope’s views “deterministic and reductive.”
Francis' trip to Belgium, ostensibly to celebrate the university’s 600th anniversary, was always going to be difficult, given Belgium’s clergy sexual abuse history and secular trends which have emptied churches in the once-staunchly Catholic country.
The pontiff is on a four day trip to Luxembourg and Belgium.
AP video by Mark Carlson
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