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UPI
MADRID, Feb. 5 (UPI) — Improvement in the Catholic Church’s handling of child sex abuse cases is forthcoming, a Vatican spokesman said Wednesday after a U.N. condemnation.
Speaking in Madrid at a national bishops’ conference, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said a plan to improve the Church’s transparency in dealing with sex abuse cases will be released soon.
His comments came after the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child denounced Vatican behavior in allegedly shielding clergy in decades of sexual abuse incidents. The committee urged the Vatican Wednesday to hand over its archives on sexual abuse to the United Nations so suspected abusers and “those who concealed their crimes” can face justice.
Lombardi said the Church’s plan would be revealed “in the coming days or weeks,” the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
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