JANUARY ended with an interesting pair of announcements by the Vatican.
One confirmed the resignation of the top Vatican official responsible for handling sex abuse cases after a former nun accused him of making sexual advances during her confessions, and, on the same day, reporters on the papal plane dispatched stories about Pope Francis seeking to lower expectations of his big sex abuse prevention summit on February 21-24.
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