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  Catholic Child Sex-Abuse Scandal Widens in Europe As More Allegations Surface

Dallas Morning News
March 10, 2010

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VATICAN CITY, ROME –- Defending itself against a growing child sex-abuse scandal in Europe, one that has even come close to the brother of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican said Tuesday that local churches had "acted swiftly and decisively" to address the issue.

But in a formal note read on Vatican Radio, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, cautioned against limiting the abuse scandal in Germany, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands to Catholic institutions, noting that it also affected society in general.

The scandal sweeping church institutions in many European countries kept widening Tuesday.

 
 

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