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Catherine Marciano
AFP journalist in the Vatican and Italy.
Signal summit on sex abuse opens at Vatican
The idea is that the 114 heads of bishops’ conferences will return home with clear ideas on how to spot and deal with abuse
Catholic church split over abuse scandal gravity
The Vatican has already warned that in some countries the church is dragging its feet because of cultural difference over what constitutes child abuse
Pope ‘begs for God’s forgiveness’ for sexual abuse scandal
In front of 45 000 supporters in the west of Ireland, the pope spoke of the ‘open wound’ of the Church’s sexual abuse scandal
Pressure mounts on pope for tougher action on abuse scandals
The pope has admitted that the Church had ‘delayed’ in applying the necessary sanctions
Blair offers ‘hand of partnership’ to Gadaffi
Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair offered a ”hand of partnership” to Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadaffi in Tripoli on Thursday in a changing post-September 11 world, after a…