ROME
Malta Today
Matthew Vella
The Promoter of Justice at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Mgr Charles Scicluna, has called on the Catholic Church to set a good example on the sad phenomenon of sexual abuse of minors by clerics.
The Maltese prelate, 52, was addressing a three-day symposium at the Pontifical Gregorian University on the Church’s approach to child abuse by clerics. For ten years, Scicluna has worked with Joseph Ratzinger to fight the phenomenon of child abuse.
Scicluna called for greater collaboration with civil authorities, a bone of contention in Malta where sex abuse allegations heard by the Maltese church’s response team are not forwarded to the police by the archdiocese.
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