CANADA
Ottawa Sun
By JOHN STEINBACHS, Ottawa Sun
The Catholic Church must work to ensure all churches across the country adopt policies to protect parishioners from sexual abuse by clergy, says a new report to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The report, released yesterday at a plenary session of the bishops in Cornwall, calls for nationwide measures that protect children and provide for transparency in the way churches deal with abuse.
"Some places are not doing it and some places are doing it, so it's a question of making sure all places (are doing it)," said Winnipeg Archbishop James Weisgerber, one of the authors of the report.