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25 July 2015

Vatican sexual abuse scandal compared to torture at U.N.

GENEVA - A U.N. committee compared the Vatican's handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal with torture Monday, raising the possibility that its failure to investigate clergy and their superiors could have broader legal implications.
But the Vatican's top envoy in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, claimed that the Holy See was getting its house in order after a decade-long effort to deal with a global priest sex abuse scandal.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican-sexual-abuse-scandal-compared-to-torture-at-un/