Dissident Catholics assail Vatican role at UN

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of activist Roman Catholics is asking the United Nations to revoke the Vatican’s permanent observer status for failing to protect the rights of women, children and the LGBTQ community.
The group, calling itself Catholics for Human Rights, said in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday that the Vatican must be removed in part because of the “magnitude of rape, sexual violence and torture perpetrated by clergy.”
The activists