Pope may be backsliding on paedophile crackdown, Catholic official says

Australia's Truth Justice and Healing Council head says Vatican establishment determined to maintain status quo The Pope may be retreating from his crackdown on paedophile priests as Vatican bureaucrats do all they can to undermine reform efforts, a senior Australian Catholic official has warned. The Catholic Church in Australia could end up as a "marginalised rump" unless there is real change to an institutional culture hell-bent on self-protection and self-preservation, the chief executive of ...