Mark your calendars for
The Purple Wave
November 3, 2018 |
For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, protestors from around the world will stand united in their call for transparency and atonement to survivors of clergy sexual abuse. SNAP, ECA and Child USA are calling protestors in each city to gather at regional cathedrals throughout the world at 3:00pm your time, on Saturday, November 3, 2018. |
4 simple steps: 1) Organize people in your city 2) Stand in front of your city's cathedral at 3pm on Nov 3 3) Wear Purple 4) Carry signs and post pictures on Twitter and Facebook with the hashtags:
#AllSurvivorsDay #EnditNow #JusticeNow #BelieveSurvivors #Endclergyabuse
#YouAreNotAlone
#MeToo
#WhyDidntIReport
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WHY NOV. 3rd? The date of November 3rd is symbolic. We will gather together on the feast day of the patron saint for social justice, St. Martin de Porres, to seek justice for survivors of clergy sexual abuse around the world. It is our hope that November 3rd will be memorialized as “All Survivors Day” which will follow “All Saints Day” on November 1st and “All Souls Day” on November 2nd. Protestors will dress in purple to symbolize the liturgical colors of pain, mourning and penitence. Practicing Catholics can continue to wear purple to mass the following Sunday. Protesters will demand Pope Francis take the following 3 actions: 1. Acknowledge that clergy sexual abuse of children has been a chronic, persistent, and pernicious problem within the Catholic Church and that the Church, rather than addressing the problem responsibility, has used its authority to cover up its criminal
conduct. 2. Voluntarily release to all relevant government authorities all records pertaining to sexual abuse by clergy.
3. Immediately cease all lobbying activity seeking governmental and diplomatic protections from civil and criminal litigation.
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October 7 marked the first mass demonstration across several Polish cities where over a thousand people protested against pedophilia in the Church. During the event, the organizers presented a map of Poland with 255 documented cases of sexual abuse of minors by the country’s Catholic priest. The map, which was prepared by ECA Member, Marek Lisinski, was posted on his foundation’s website and received over a million views in two days.
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Bishops around the world convened on Wednesday October 3rd in Rome to begin a month-long synod on young people, faith and vocational discernment. They are meeting during an unprecedented global crisis of sexual assault of youngsters by clergy and the cover up of these crimes by
bishops and Vatican officials. Fueling the crisis are the growing revelations of widespread abuse of minors and young adults in Catholic seminaries around the world, including in the United States, Honduras, Spain and Rome itself, the seat of the Papacy.
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A “shocking” report into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in Germany is “probably only the tip of the iceberg”, the country’s justice minister has said. The German Catholic church revealed the results of an investigation into decades of sexual abuse of children on Tuesday afternoon. The report details the cases of 3,677 children, the majority of whom are male, who were sexually abused between 1946 and 2014. About 1,670 clerics, mainly priests, are implicated. ECA's Board Member Matthias Katsch had much to say about
it.
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Bern, 29.06.2018 - Philip D. Jaffé was today elected to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child by the states parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. He
is the second Swiss person to serve as a member. The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), comprising 18 members, monitors implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its optional protocols. This convention
safeguards all human rights of children, defined as persons under the age of 18. The 196 states parties agree to take all appropriate measures to ensure these rights are protected in their respective countries, and they regularly submit progress reports to the CRC.
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