ROME
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Vatican City, 8 Feb. :(AKI) – The Vatican’s top watchdog said the the Catholic Church must cooperate with police to crackdown on priests suspected of sexually molesting children.
Speaking in Rome on Wednesday during a four-day closed meeting on sex abuse in the Church, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said, “The Church has an obligation to cooperate with the requirements of civil law regarding the reporting of such crimes to the appropriate authorities.”
The “Towards Healing and Renewal” international symposium – meant to help bishops design rules to protect children from abuse priests – has been criticized by pedophile victims organisations as being mere public relations. It was attended by around 200 mostly bishops and reportedly some abuse victims.
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