ROME
NEWS.com.au (Australia)
SCORES of Catholic leaders from around the world have gathered for an unprecedented anti-abuse summit hosted by the Vatican intended to find ways to stamp out pedophilia.
Bishops from 100 countries and the leaders of 33 religious orders will take part in the four-day meeting, as well as the Vatican’s anti-pedophilia prosecutor Charles Scicluna and one abuse victim, Ireland’s Marie Collins.
Pope Benedict XVI is expected to issue a special blessing for the conference at the Vatican’s Gregorian University, which will also launch a Centre for Child Protection in Germany to fight sex abuse by the clergy in the church worldwide.
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