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24 April 2015

Pope Francis must do more to protect children from Catholic church abuse

Pope Francis has made international headlines by breaking with a number of church traditions, but there is one that he sadly upholds.
For centuries, most high ranking church officials guilty of child abuse or other crimes have been kept on the job, shuffled elsewhere, allowed to quietly retire or even promoted. That hasn’t changed: Vatican officials’ obsession with “saving face” still trumps their concern with saving children.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/23/pope-francis-must-do-more-to-protect-children-from-catholic-church-abuse