VATICAN CITY
CNN
By Livia Borghese and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
updated 9:29 AM EDT, Fri April 5, 2013
Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis has told the Vatican to “act decisively” against sexual abuse and carry out “due proceedings against the guilty,” the Vatican announced Friday.
Francis last month took the helm of a Roman Catholic Church that has been rocked in recent years by allegations of priests sexually abusing minors.
Francis recommended that the Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “act decisively with regard to cases of sexual abuse, first of all by promoting measures for the protection of minors, as well as in offering assistance to those who have suffered abuse, carrying out due proceedings against the guilty,” the Vatican said.
The statement does not specify who “the guilty” are.
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