Italian bishops approve 20-year abuse study

Italian bishops approve 20-year abuse study Cardinal Matteo Zuppi in 2019. Photo: CNS.

As a “first choice”, members of the Italian bishops’ conference decided to focus their study of clerical sexual abuse in the country on cases reported to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2000 to 2021. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the new president of the conference, told reporters May 27 that…

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