GENEVA
Voice of America
Jerome Socolovsky
February 04, 2014
The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child will issue recommendations on Wednesday following an investigation into the Vatican’s response to the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy. Although the recommendations are non-binding, it marks the first time the Holy See had to answer questions at an international hearing dedicated to the issue.
Priests have been convicted, and dioceses bankrupted by lawsuits. But last month’s hearing in Geneva was the first time the Vatican had to answer an international panel’s questions about pedophile priests.
The Vatican’s U.N. representative Archbishop Silvano Tomasi testified.
“The Holy See has carefully delineated policies and procedures designed to help eliminate such abuse,” he said.
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