Abuse by priests in Italy can no longer be tolerated by the Vatican

Members of an international coalition of lay people known as "Acies Ordinata", hold a demonstration in Piazza San Silvestro, Rome

2024-09-05  801  中等

Italy has so far avoided the kind of reckoning with clerical sex abuse that has shattered the loyalty to their church of millions of Catholics elsewhere. In neighbouring France a commission set up by the bishops reported three years ago that it had identified 216,000 cases involving minors over the 70 years to 2020. But the circumstances surrounding the case of Father Melis, who is yet to be tried, suggest that attitudes in the police, the media and the Italian public are changing, albeit slowly.

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