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5 January 2017

Royal Commission to challenge the Vatican on Catholic Church law

OPE Francis has been accused of “doing nothing” to end the Catholic Church’s refusal to report child sexual abuse to police in most of the world after a papal letter to bishops on January 2, only weeks before a major Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse final hearing into the church.
The Pope condemned “the covering up and denial” of sexual abuse within the church, which he described as “a sin that shames us”.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4385890/pope-in-the-spotlight/