Pervasive abuse in Belgian Catholic Church
The new head of Belgium’s Catholic Church has pledged to focus on the victims of alleged sexual abuse in a first attempt to rebuild public trust. An independent body to investigate the alleged abuse found it had occurred in every diocese over decades. The World’s Clark Boyd reports from Brussels.
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