A federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Wednesday accuses the Vatican of actively covering up sexual abuse within the Catholic Church and aims to uncover the names and files of some 3,400 perpetrators.
Two survivors of clerical sexual abuse, represented by the Minnesota-based law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, are suing the Vatican — which is a sovereign nation and generally protected from such lawsuits under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act — for violating international human rights law, among other things.
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