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Vatican accused of lack of transparency over 384 priests defrocked for assaulting children
After a brief denial, the Vatican has confirmed that, in his final two years as pope, Benedict XVI defrocked almost 400 priests for assaulting children. But critics are claiming that the circumstances of the revelations made on Friday could be “damage control”. They point out that the admission came less than 24 hours after church leaders faced a grilling by the UN in Geneva about a perceived lack of transparency over existing procedures to protect children from sexual abuse by priests.
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