VATICAN CITY
Irish Independent
NICK SQUIRES ROME – 10 JULY 2013
A UNITED NATIONS committee has demanded that the Vatican reveal potentially explosive details about the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy.
Campaigners have called on Pope Francis, who was elected in March, to make tackling the issue of sexually abusive priests a priority of his papacy.
The UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child said yesterday that “given the scale” of the sexual violence acknowledged by the Holy See, it must provide detailed information on all cases of abuse committed by clergy and on its investigations into such abuses.
The Vatican was told to show whether it had implemented measures “to ensure that no member of the clergy currently accused of sexual abuse be allowed to remain in contact with children”.
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