'War crime' court asked to probe Vatican

Belfast Telegraph Tuesday 13th September, 2011

An international clerical abuse survivors group is calling on Irish bishops to release secret files as it pursues the Vatican in a landmark legal action. The group alleges the Pope and three senior cardinals in Rome "tolerated and enabled the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes". The Survivors Network of t...

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