ROME
Voice of America
Posted Monday, February 6th, 2012
Roman Catholic leaders from across the globe have opened an unprecedented Vatican-sponsored summit on ways to detect and prevent sexual child abuse by clergy.
Organizers say the four-day, closed-door symposium, hosted by Rome’s Jesuit-run Gregorian University, includes bishops from 100 countries and representatives of more than 30 religious orders.
University Vice Rector Hans Zollner said the summit will include a vigil ceremony Tuesday in Rome’s Saint Ignatius church in which several religious orders embroiled in the church’s sex abuse scandal will publicly ask forgiveness from abuse survivors.
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