Pope Francis closed an unprecedented Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse by promising to protect children and help victims of what he called a plague of clerical sex abuse, but he offered few policy specifics. Photo: APWest Virginia’s attorney general on Tuesday sued the state’s Catholic diocese and its former bishop, saying they knowingly employed pedophiles, including an admitted abuser who was allowed to work in an elementary school. The lawsuit, brought by Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, alleges the West Virginia diocese failed to notify parents about past allegations or admissions of sexual abuse or to conduct adequate background checks. In one instance, the diocese reassigned a priest who had admitted to abusing a student to a...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 19, 2019 15:42 UTC