Abuse saga is being used by elements within the church against Pope Francis – Cardinal Kasper

There are people who simply do not love this Pope. They want that this pontificate ends as soon as possible to have, so to speak, a new conclave. They also want them to go in their favour, so they will have a result that fits their ideas. ” Cardinal Walter Kasper said this in an interview he gave two days ago to the Report München program of the German broadcaster ARD, and which was by the Catholic magazine Crux.

Kasper, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, very close to the Pope, spoke of Pope Francis and the current crisis of sexual abuse in the clergy.

In the episode, which also includes interviews with the American cardinal Raymond Burke (great opponent of Bergoglio) and the Irish victim Marie Collins (who left the Vatican’s anti-abuse committee), Kasper has said that there are some fields in the Church that are taking advantage of the abuse crisis as a platform to expel Bergoglio from the papacy.

Kasper said that Francesco’s adversaries are using an “inappropriate” strategy to turn the discussion on the issue of abuse “into a discussion of the Pope who, he said, is tantamount to” abuse of abuse “.

According to the cardinal, this attempt to influence the debate and to focus on the pontificate of Bergoglio “deviates attention from the real problem” namely the development of better “means of prevention when it comes to protecting minors from abuse.”