“This is the moment of truth, transparency and credibility,” he said during a conference on communication in the digital era, organized by the Catholic Church.

“The secret values the discretion not to do a favor for the majority. We must be in a position to say that we have nothing to hide, “he said, quoted by Italian news agencies.

This week Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of two bishops involved in pedophilia cases.

Roger Vangheluwe Belgian admitted molesting a child several years ago. It is the first bishop to resign because he has committed himself sexual abuse of minors from the wave of scandals that rocked the Church in Europe and America since November.

And James Moriarty is the fourth bishop who resigned after two scandals in Ireland.

Important dignitaries of the Church are accused of having protected priests suspected of sexual abuse made by sending th1000em to other parishes or in some cases making them these crimes, rather than betray them to justice.

The alleged victim of a priest accused of molesting nearly 200 children at a deaf school in Wisconsin (United States) filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Vatican and the Pope to require publication of the secret files on internal investigations of the Catholic Church on pedophilia.