"There must be an 'institutional repair.' It is too easy to isolate the abuser from his environment and reduce his crime to a personal deviance in which the Church has no responsibility. The first step is the work of memory and establishment of the truth. To find is not enough, we must try to explain why the church remained silent," Ringlet said.
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Financial compensation covering expensive therapies many abuse victims have to go through is the second step, the priest added, describing it as a "material repair with high symbolic value."
"Forgiveness is the next step. While recalling that there is no pardon without justice. It depends on a request for forgiveness from the abuser, but also from the institution. The Church must show that her heart really bleeds. Forgiveness is necessary to break the chain of inhumanity," Ringlet stressed.
According to Ringlet, pedophilia causes a "triple destruction" – physical, emotional and psychological.
"The weight of the ecclesial silence has sometimes wounded more than the acts of the abuser," the priest noted.
Moreover, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday citing a report commissioned by the German Bishops Conference and prepared by three universities that there were at least 3,677 cases of abuse by Catholic clergymen across Germany between 1946 and 2014.
