ROME (Reuters) - Catholic leaders must come down "from
the pulpit" to acknowledge that clergy sexual abuse of children and
cover-ups had broken the Church's heart and to do more to prevent it,
speakers at a conference said on Thursday.
The gathering at a pontifical university in Rome took
place as the Vatican was still stinging from the shock resignation on
March 1 of Marie Collins from a commission advising Pope Francis on how
to root out sexual abuse.
Collins, who as a teenager was abused by a priest in
Ireland, quit in frustration, citing "shameful" resistance to change
within the Vatican.
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