Vatican denies celibacy rule led to sex scandal
Posted: March 15, 2010 at 3:35 a.m.
The Vatican on Sunday denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex-abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again defended the pope’s handling of the crisis.
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