• UN confronts Vatican on child abuse
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[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25748952[/URL] [QUOTE]The Vatican is being confronted publicly for the first time over the sexual abuse of children by clergy, at a UN hearing in Geneva. Officials faced a barrage of hard questions covering why they would not release full data and what they were doing to prevent future abuse. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said such crimes could "never be justified" and every child should be "inviolable". A fellow official said "things need to be done differently". The Vatican earlier refused a request from the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for data on abuse, and was accused of responding inadequately to abuse allegations. ... The Holy See is a signatory to the [URL="http://www.unicef.org/crc/"]UN Convention on the Rights of the Child[/URL], a legally binding instrument which commits it to protecting and nurturing the most vulnerable in society. It ratified the convention in 1990 but after an [URL="http://www.refworld.org/country,,CRC,,VAT,4562d8b62,3ae6af7f4,0.html"]implementation report[/URL] in 1994 it did not submit any progress reports until 2012, following revelations of child sex abuse in Europe and beyond. ... In a homily on Thursday, Pope Francis said abuse scandals were "the shame of the Church". "Here are so many scandals that I do not want to name them individually but everyone knows about them."[/QUOTE] inb4 "angry letters lololol"; if nothing more, being specifically outed by the UN for child abuse scandals is a huge embarrassment for the Vatican.
Even Francis knows everyone knows about it. It sure sucks that some people only become church officials to become close to children; I'm glad they are getting some official flak about it.
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