The UN Committee against Torture “found that the widespread sexual violence within the Catholic Church amounted to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.” After Vatican officials were called to Geneva in May 2014 to respond to tough questions
like why the pope believed his responsibility for protecting children
against torture only applied on Vatican property, the committee issued
its report.
The members “ordered the Vatican to hand over files containing
details of clerical sexual abuse allegations to police forces around the
world, … to use its authority over the Roman Catholic Church worldwide
to ensure all allegations of clerical abuse are passed on to the secular authorities
and to impose ‘meaningful sanctions’ on any Church officials who fail
to do so.” With the exception of a couple of staged PR events, the pope
has refused to take any of these measures.http://churchandstate.org.uk/2015/06/pope-francis-defies-un-on-torturing-children/