UK Cardinal Denies Predator Priest Cover-Up

The United Kingdom's leading cleric is denying that he covered for an alleged predator priest. In testimony to a government panel on Thursday, Westminster Cdl. Vincent Nichols countered claims he was complicit in covering up sex abuse as archbishop of Birmingham from 2000–2009. Cardinal Nichols, head of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, told investigators with Britain's Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) that he was "still learning" how to handle the "terrible evil" of clerical sex abuse, but insisted he was innocent of whitewash.

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