ROME (ITALY)
Associated Press
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The lead organizer of the Vatican’s sex abuse summit has met with an Irish activist who is working to draw attention to a related issue the Vatican has tried to keep quiet: priests who father children.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, the Vatican’s longtime sex crimes investigator, met with Vincent Doyle, himself the child of a priest.
Through his advocacy group Coping International, Doyle has sought to compel Catholic leaders to acknowledge the problem of non-celibate priests getting women pregnant and the impact the church’s enforced secrecy has on the women and their children.
In a statement Scicluna provided to Doyle, the archbishop said the issue needs to be addressed and the children acknowledged.
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