ROME
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Hundreds of bishops, religious superiors, child psychologists and abuse victims have gathered in Rome for a symposium on the Catholic Church’s handling of clerical child abuse.
A key gathering of hundreds of bishops, religious superiors, child psychologists and abuse victims is under way in Rome.
Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins was due to open the symposium with a presentation, regarded by many as unprecedented, on her experience of clerical child abuse and the subsequent cover-up.
The meeting, called “A Symposium for Catholic Bishops and Religious Superiors on Sexual Abuse of Minors”, is seen as the Catholic Church’s most robust response to date to the wave of clerical paedophile scandals.
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