Hungarian Catholic Church Leaders Filed Charges Against a Victim of Sexual Abuse
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Thousands of cases of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests have in recent years shaken the Church to its foundations as it sought to crack down on centuries of misconduct while simultaneously managing the fallout with a centuries-old tradition of secrecy. As the scope of the problem became more well known after the beginning of this century, priests and Catholic dioceses across the world were forced to reckon with their acts of abuse and abetment, a process that ultimately rose to the highest levels of the Church's power in the Vatican.