Vatican City: Pope Francis on Thursday opened a landmark Vatican summit on fighting child sex abuse, calling for “concrete measures” and handing top Catholic bishops a roadmap to tackling paedophilia in the church. “The holy people of God looks to us, and expects from us not simple and predictable condemnations, but concrete and effective measures to be undertaken. We need to be concrete,” he said as the summit opened, the first of its kind. “Hear the cry of the little ones who plead for justice,” he said.
Meanwhile, three activists overturned a statue of a Polish priest accused of sex abuse in the northern city of Gdansk early Thursday. On the fallen statue the men placed underwear and altar boy clothing.
