Nicole Winfield, chief correspondent, Rome, secured the first TV and photo access to the secretive Vatican tribunal that processes clergy sexual abuse cases. The result was an exclusive on-camera interview with the head of the tribunal’s discipline section, an unprecedented tour of the room where appeals are heard and a look at the trolleys of files documenting all the world’s known Catholic sex abuse cases. The office says it has seen a record 1,000 reports of clergy abuse this year.
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As abuse reports surge, secretive Vatican office opens doors to AP
Monsignor John Kennedy, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith discipline section, looks through files at his office during an interview at the Vatican, Dec. 9, 2019. The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before, suggesting that the worst may be yet to come. “We're effectively seeing a tsunami of cases at the moment,” said Kennedy.
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