UNITED KINGDOM
The Tablet
07 March 2016 | by Megan Cornwell
The Holy See’s statement was a response to heightened scrutiny from the media
Critics of the Catholic Church’s response to the child sex abuse scandal are “sensationalist” and have “a short memory”, the Vatican has asserted in a scathing response to Cardinal Pell’s evidence in front of an Australian Commission.
Fr Frederico Lombardi SJ, Head of the Vatican press office, said in the statement that “those who are least informed or have a short memory” think the Church has done nothing to combat and respond to “these terrible problems”, but that “objective consideration shows that this is not the case”.
The Holy See’s statement was a response to heightened scrutiny from the media while Cardinal Pell was giving evidence to Australia’s inquiry into historic child abuse in the Church and as Spotlight won best film at the Oscars.
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