Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. 

Turn Up Your Support

A second panel of the United Nations is investigating the Vatican and its response to child sexual abuse committed by members of the Roman Catholic clergy.


Earlier this year, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child called upon the top leadership of the Roman Catholic Church to remove all abusers from its roster immediately and report them to civil authorities. The Vatican, which already had a commission in place investigating the abuse scandal, bristled at what it saw as interference in its affairs.


Now, the body's Committee Against Torture will investigate the Vatican's record on responding to sexual abuse, on the grounds that children have been raped and rape is a form of torture.


The Daily Circuit speaks with a legal expert and an abuse survivor about the dispute.

Crime, Law and Justice

Vatican City is one of the countries that signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention Against Torture.

Vatican, clergy abuse come under U.N. scrutiny

Go Deeper.

Like this?