Survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their supporters are urging the Vatican to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy for priestly misconduct that has been in place in the U.S. Catholic Church since 2002. The U.S. norms, implemented in the wake of a major ...

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse are urging the Vatican to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A former top Vatican official who dealt with clergy sexual abuse issues joined victims on Monday in urging Pope Francis to enact a zero-tolerance law throughout the global Catholic church so any cleric found guilty of abuse would be removed from ministry.