Pope changes Church law to make reporting sex abuse obligatory

Pope Francis on Thursday passed a landmark new measure to oblige those who know about sex abuse in the Catholic Church to report it to their superiors, in a move which could bring countless new cases to light.Every diocese in the world will now be obliged to have a system for the reporting of abuse, under a new law published by the Vatican following a global clerical paedophilia scandal.It is time to learn from the "bitter lessons of the past", Francis said in the text of the legal decree, which