Clergy abuse survivors propose new 'zero tolerance' law following outcry over Vatican appointment
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Survivors Push for Stronger Clergy Abuse LawEnd Clergy Abuse proposes a law to permanently remove abusive priests after protests against Vatican's 2023 appointment of Cardinal Fernández.
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- Survivors of clergy sexual abuse unveiled a law proposal to permanently remove abusive priests and those who cover for them.
- The global group End Clergy Abuse presented the draft following protests at the Vatican and before the United Nations in Geneva.
- Criticism focuses on Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández’s appointment, whose past handling of abuse cases as bishop in Argentina is disputed.
- Fernández admitted mistakes in a case involving a priest accused of abuse, who was removed only after a decade and died by suicide in 2019.
"Surely he shouldn’t be in this position," Perez told reporters.— Diego Perez, a Lorenzo case survivor, told reporters in Rome
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