Because the Vatican had signed the U.N. Convention for the Rights of the Child, it was compelled to appear before a U.N. committee and give an account of the “scale of abuse [of children by clergy] and what it was doing to prevent it.” A brief AP story appeared in newspapers. Mr. John L. Allen Jr. offers more details in his All Things Catholic post today.
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