The Good Fight – March 6, 2010 – Hour 2
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First Topic – Clergy Sex Abuse Scandals Rock Europe
In an unusual interview on March 13, a key Vatican official described in detail the steps taken by the Vatican to confront priestly sex abuse since 2001, the year the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under then-Cardinal Ratzinger, laid out strict new norms for processing such cases. The official, Msgr. Charles Scicluna, a doctrinal congregation official from Malta who deals directly with cases of priests accused of abuse of minors, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the allegation that Pope Benedict had covered up sex abuse crimes was "false and calumnious." We look at the growing number clergy sex abuse claims in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and more. Veteran Vatican journalist John Allen is with us.
Second Topic – TBA
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