Abuse survivors urge the Vatican to globalize the zero-tolerance policy it approved in the US

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse are urging the Vatican to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002. They argued Monday that there’s no reason why children around the world shouldn’t be kept just as safe from predator priests. The U.S. norms say a priest will be permanently removed from church ministry based on even a single act of sexual abuse that is either admitted to or established under church law. But the Vatican in recent years has refused to apply a one-size-fits-all approach in its sentences for abuse elsewhere.