Bishops head to Vatican’s first sex abuse summithome/News/Top Stories/Bishops head to Vatican’s first sex abuse summitVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis gathers bishops from around the world at the Vatican this week for a hotly awaited summit on tackling the wave of child sex abuse scandals assailing the Catholic Church. Some abuse victims, particularly from countries where their plight is ignored, have also been invited to attend. McCarrick, 88, who resigned from the Vatican’s College of Cardinals in July, is the first cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse. The Pope has already warned those hoping the four-day meet would be a panacea that “the problem of abuse will continue”. In the United States, the Protestant Southern Baptist Convention has been hit by a wide-ranging sex abuse scandal involving almost 400 pastors, volunteers and teachers over two decades.

Source: Manila Times February 17, 2019 16:43 UTC