TORONTO (CANADA)
CBC News
February 21, 2019
By Jonathon Gatehouse
How big is the problem of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church?
No one but the Vatican knows.
Last summer, Pope Francis wrote an unprecedented letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics apologizing for the church’s abandonment of “the little ones,” and asking for the laity’s help in “uprooting this culture of death.”
But as a special four-day summit on abuse prevention opens in Rome this morning, the scope of the crisis might best be described as both huge and hazy.
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