The French Catholic Church has decided to set up a new independent
commission made up of secular experts in charge of advising bishops and
helping them handle the sensitive cases of child sex abuses by priests.
Monsignor Georges Pontier, the chief of France's bishops, announced Tuesday a series of measures to fight pedophilia inside the French church, amid growing concerns over newly-revealed child sex abuse cases, especially in the Lyon diocese run by Cardinal Philippe Barbarin.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/68526b80b8384fc6a47995ab2bd8684b/secular-experts-advise-french-church-child-sex-abuse
Monsignor Georges Pontier, the chief of France's bishops, announced Tuesday a series of measures to fight pedophilia inside the French church, amid growing concerns over newly-revealed child sex abuse cases, especially in the Lyon diocese run by Cardinal Philippe Barbarin.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/68526b80b8384fc6a47995ab2bd8684b/secular-experts-advise-french-church-child-sex-abuse