Efforts continued throughout 2023 to tackle clerical sex crimes in the Catholic Church, with church or state reports being published in several European countries and the case of Father Marko Rupnik making numerous waves of headlines.
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Pope Francis despite a lingering flu causing breathing difficulties met with the leader of a Peru-based lay group at the Vatican Friday amid an ongoing investigation into the community’s financial activities and various reform efforts.
In several parts of the world, new information confirms the scale of the Church's sexual crimes and the difficulty of responding to them with justice. We take a look at the most notorious situations.