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23 June 2015

Pope Francis backs new Vatican sex abuse tribunal

The new office will be set up within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which will be mandated to judge all such cases connected to the abuse of children and vulnerable adults.  “I won’t go into who should and who shouldn’t because when you mention one there are other survivors who feel about their bishop or their archbishop exactly the same way as I would have felt about Cardinal Connell”, she said.
Pope Francis received the bishops of Latvia and Estonia in audience on June 11 and lamented the “dangerous perils” of relativism and secularism. “What one should have done and didn’t do”, he said.

http://sentinelrepublic.com/pope-francis-backs-new-vatican-sex-abuse-tribunal/5733/