The Vatican this week is hosting a three-day symposium on the Catholic priesthood amid renewed public attention on clergy sex abuse scandals and fresh research into the abuses of priestly power that harm both children and adults.
In the past month, a report by a German law firm cited former pope Benedict XVI for mishandling sexual abuse cases while he was Archbishop of Munich. He initially denied any knowledge of the cases. Then he changed his statement and said he had known, and that it was a typing error. This week he.