Survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their supporters are urging the Vatican to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy for priestly misconduct that has been in place in the U.S. Catholic Church since 2002. The U.S. norms, implemented in the wake of a major ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A former top Vatican official who dealt with clergy sexual abuse issues joined victims on Monday in urging Pope Francis to enact a zero-tolerance law throughout the global Catholic church so any cleric found guilty of abuse would be removed from ministry.

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse have urged the Vatican to expand the zero-tolerance policy it approved for the US Catholic Church in 2002 to the rest of the world, arguing that children everywhere should be protected from predator priests.