The Italian Bishops' Conference has ruled out setting up a special commission into child abuse despite the high number of cases. The Church has dealt with some hundred paedophile priest cases during the past decade and even a single case is always too much, said the conference's secretary general Monsignor Mariano Crociata said, according to a report on BigPond News.
But he said there was no need to imitate the German Bishop's Conference and create a special commission, adding that the Vatican guidelines and the Pope's recommendations to Irish Catholics in March were sufficient for dealing with the cases.
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