“Brothers and sisters, today we find ourselves before a manifestation of brazen, aggressive and destructive evil,” the pope said. In a sign of new measures being taken, the Vatican announced that it would soon issue a new law creating a child protection policy for Vatican City State that covers the Holy See bureaucracy. “It’s not like there is an enormous diffusion of these crimes inside Vatican City State or the Curia,” summit moderator the Rev. Currently the church only considers it a “grave delict” — or a crime handled by the Vatican office that processes sex abuse cases — if the child in question is under age 14. ——More AP coverage of clergy sex abuse at https://www.apnews.com/Sexualabusebyclergy

Source: National Post February 24, 2019 09:02 UTC