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Wed 03 Mar 2010Vatican reacts to 'wall of silence' claim
SENIOR VATICAN spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi appeared to respond to criticism of the Catholic Church on Monday from the German justice minister Sabline Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, who had argued that Vatican secrecy had helped to create a “wall of silence” surrounding allegations of clerical sex abuse.
Speaking on Vatican Radio, Fr Lombardi said the church was “doing all it can” to ensure that the sexual abuse of minors “never happens again”. He added that those German church communities afflicted by the burgeoning German clerical sex abuse crisis had acted “promptly and decisively”.
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