Thursday, February 9, 2012

Sexual abuse silence "deadly" for Church: Vatican official

Sexual abuse silence "deadly" for Church: Vatican official
Wed,8 Feb 2012 05:45 AM PST
Reuters -

Pope Benedict XVI looks at heavy snowfall in Saint Peter's Square at the VaticanROME (Reuters) - Hiding behind a culture of "omerta" -- the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence -- would be deadly for the Catholic Church, the Vatican's top official for dealing with sexual abuse of minors by clergy said Wednesday. Monsignor Charles Scicluna made the unusually forthright comment in his speech to a landmark symposium in Rome on the sexual abuse crisis that has rocked the Church in the past decade. "The teaching ... ...

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