ROME (ITALY)
Associated Press
October 9, 2018
The pope’s summit early next year on preventing sex abuse should also address holding bishops accountable when they fail to protect their flocks from paedophile priests, the Vatican’s leading sex abuse expert said Monday.
Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna said the February summit of global church leaders is the appropriate venue for discussing “a great expectation for more accountability” among Catholic faithful worldwide.
The Vatican said last month that Pope Francis had summoned the presidents of the estimated 130 Catholic bishops’ conferences to a Feb. 21-24 meeting to discuss the “protection of minors.” The announcement was made as clergy sex abuse revelations and cover-up allegations on several continents fuelled a scandal that now threatens Francis’ papacy.
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