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By SYLVIA POGGIOLI
Originally published on Sun May 11, 2014

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I’m Rachel Martin. The Vatican got a grilling this past week for its handling of the clerical sex abuse scandal. The setting – a United Nations hearing in Geneva. Meanwhile in Rome, a new advisory board to Pope Francis held its first meeting on the sex abuse crisis.

In a moment we’ll hear from a member of that board whose personal story of abuse may be hard for some listeners to hear. But first, NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli reports on that U.N. committee looking into the Vatican’s response to sexual abuse.

SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE: In February, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child accused the church of systematically placing its own interests over those of sex abuse victims by using a…