CANBERRA, Australia—A judicial inquiry investigating decades of alleged child abuse by Australia’s Catholic Church has been told that up to 7% of priests may have been pedophiles, with a representative of the church describing the scale of the ill-treatment as a “massive failure” by senior clergy to protect children. A judicial inquiry formed in 2012 to investigate accusations of serious child abuse within institutions including...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 06, 2017 12:44 UTC