But the official, Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna, who is effectively the Vatican's internal prosecutor, said the church was working to bring more "transparency" to the delicate and emotional process of settling allegations of abuse by priests that have severely damaged the church's moral standing.
"We have to get our act together and start working for more transparency in investigations and more adequate responses for the problem," Monsignor Scicluna said, adding that this should happen "on every level of the church."
His comments, rare for an official in the famously reticent
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, were part of a broader
Vatican defense against a rising abuse scandal in Germany, including a case that happened on the watch of Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. Over the weekend, Monsignor Scicluna told
L'Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops Conference, that his
office had examined 3,000 abuse cases in the past decade, most of them
from the United States.
Source: Rachel Donadio, The New York Times
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