The Vatican, child sex crimes and how Australia is the great facilitator

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated February 21 2017 - 8:30am, first published 5:00am
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AUSTRALIA should renounce the Vatican’s diplomatic status, close its embassy to the Holy See and make senior Catholic clergy accountable to the Australian criminal justice system, say supporters of a tougher response to the church after it refused to comply with requests from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

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