The Vatican is gearing
up for a bruising showdown over the global priest sex abuse scandal, forced for
the first time to defend itself at length and in public against allegations it
enabled the rape of thousands of children by protecting pedophile priests and
its own reputation at the expense of victims.
The Holy See on Thursday 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.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican-facing-un-showdown-on-sex-abuse-record/
The Holy See on Thursday 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.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican-facing-un-showdown-on-sex-abuse-record/