The Latest: German cardinal urges changes to Vatican secrecy
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the sex abuse prevention summit at the Vatican (all times local):
12:30 p.m.
A top German cardinal has called for changes to the Vatican’s legal code of secrecy that is imposed on sex abuse cases and for the publication of statistics about the problem as necessary measures to restore trust from the faithful in the Catholic hierarchy.
German Cardinal Reinhard Marx told Pope Francis’ sex abuse prevention summit Saturday that the church’s fa
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