英文早点丨0802 - 现实中“披着羊皮的狼”，欧美“神圣”的教父性侵儿童！

瑞士媒体“瑞士资讯”7月24日援引法新社报道称，智利检方于当地时间7月24日表示，智利正在调查该国国内天主教会158名成员，包括神职人员与普通信徒，是否犯下或包庇性侵孩童和成人案件。这些案件可追溯至1960年，涉及266名受害人，包括178名孩童和青少年。他告诉记者，大多数通报事件，都与神职人员或教育机构相关人士犯下的性犯罪有关。

Children are in need of models than critics.

There is a recent photo of Pope Francis doing the rounds on social media that shows him walking alone, without security people or a private secretary, across a Vatican courtyard. That crisis now threatens to engulf his papacy and do lasting damage to Francis’s own reputation.

The scandal has grown from being, as the church once claimed, about a few bad apples, to a global disaster, revealing not only cover-ups by bishops of priests’ behaviour but accusations against archbishops and cardinals, the princes of the church.

文本选自 ：The Guardian（卫报）

作者 ：Catherine Pepinster

原文标题 ：Pope Francis has utterly failed to tackle the church’s abuse scandal

原文发布时间 ：26 July 2018

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• vt. 吞没;吞食;包住;狼吞虎咽

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