GENEVA
Prensa Latina (Cuba)
Rome, May 5 (Prensa Latina) The Vatican presented today a report to the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) to clarify accusations against priests for abuse of minors.
Silvano Tomasi, representative of the Holy See before the said Committee in Geneva, started the first of two days of analysis of an Initial Periodic Report about the attitude of the Catholic Church in addressing reports of cases of religious leaders involved in such abuses.
The presentation of the document, quoted by Vatican Radio, refers to several legal clarifications about dozens of cases of sexual abuse of minors, discussed last January before the UN Committee on Rights of the Child.
It says that the State of Vatican City is a subdivision of the Holy See and highlights difficulties of the former to exercise its jurisdiction to investigate cases outside that territory, without violating other nations’ sovereignty.
The State of Vatican City, created officially in 1929, ratified CAT in 2002 and, according to the report submitted by Tomasi, it looks for the broadest cooperation in the global fight against violence and torture.
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