VATICAN CITY
Fox News Latino
On Thursday, the Vatican will be forced for the first time to defend itself to the United Nations, at length in public, against allegations it enabled the rape of thousands of children. Meanwhile, Pope Francis made another move to clean house at the troubled Vatican bank on Wednesday naming a new roster of cardinal advisers to replace the ones who were in place during the bank’s latest brushes with scandal.
Only one cardinal from the previous commission overseeing the bank’s operations, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, survived the cut. The five-member Cardinal’s Commission, as it is known, names the lay board of the Vatican bank and its top two general managers and makes sure they adhere to the bank’s mission to administer money for works of charity.
The bank cleanup comes as the Vatican is gearing up for a bruising showdown over the another black eye for the Catholic Church – the global priest sex abuse scandal. The Vatican will be forced for the first time on Thursday to defend itself at length and in public against allegations that it enabled the rape of thousands of children by protecting pedophile priests, and its own reputation, at the expense of victims.
The Holy See will be grilled by a U.N. committee in Geneva on its implementation of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. Among other things, the treaty calls for signatories to take all appropriate measures to protect children from harm and to put children’s interests above all else.
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