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BBC sees ‘culture of complicity and denial’ of clerical sex abuse in Italy

February 21, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: “In Great Britain, in Australia, in the US, in Germany, society came to a point to confront this issue and then the Church also had to confront it—but this awareness and urgency to deal with it has not come about in this country [Italy] yet,” Father Hans Zollner, a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, said amid calls for an independent investigation into the sexual abuse of minors in Italian Catholic institutions.

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