UN grills Vatican over cleric pedophiles
The UN Human Rights Committee has blamed the Vatican for indulging longstanding policies enabling priests to sexually abuse children, and called to open pedophile files and disclose the names of those clergymen who assisted in concealing such crimes. The Vatican’s UN representative hit back saying the report was distorted, unfair and ideologically biased. A scathing UN report published on Wednesday accuses the Holy See of a systematic blackout concerning the molestation of children, claiming that tens of thousands of children have been raped by priests. “The Committee is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of … Continue reading UN grills Vatican over cleric pedophiles