GENEVA
9 News (Australia)
The Vatican insists it is committed to stamping out sexual abuse by the clergy, as top Church officials were grilled before the UN’s child rights watchdog.
The hearing came as Pope Francis said all Catholics should feel “shame”, in an apparent reference to the scandals that have rocked the Church for more than a decade.
Under the spotlight at the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, the Vatican delegation insisted that it understood what it had to do to root out sexual crimes.
“The Holy See gets it, that certain things have to be done differently,” said Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s former top prosecutor.
“It’s not words, it has to be commitment on the ground, on the level of the local churches,” he told the committee on Thursday.
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