The Vatican has continued to receive a high number of reports of sexual abuse by clerics during Pope Francis's papacy, according to a new book that also reexamines allegations against several of the pontiff's top advisers involving coverups or worse.
The book by Italian journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi — an advance copy of which was provided to The Washington Post, and which is to be published Thursday — argues that little has changed in the way the church handles sexual abuse cases despite Francis's creation of a special commission for the protection of minors and a declaration of “zero tolerance” of abuse.
The church “is still afraid of the taboo,” Fittipaldi said in an interview.
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