UNITED KINGDOM
Premier
Mon 16 Jan 2017
By Premier Journalist
An Italian author has lashed out at Pope Francis, claiming the Catholic leader has not followed through on his promise to have a zero tolerance approach on clerical sex abuse.
Emiliano Fittipaldi makes the accusations against the Pope in his new book Lussuria (‘Lust’) which will be released in Italy on Thursday.
Fittipaldi claims that 1,200 complaints of child sex abuse were taken to the Pope in his first three years of papacy. He writes that in Italy, a number of priests have been convicted of abuse but the church did not take any canonical action against them.
The author also suggests that Australian cardinal George Pell, who has been accused of protecting abusers in his archdiocese, has remained in a senior position despite the complaints against him.
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