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Vatican defrocks 848 priests in 10 years for abuse
May 06, 2014
The Vatican has released comprehensive statistics for the first time on how it has disciplined priests accused of raping and molesting children: It says 848 priests have been defrocked and another 2,572 given lesser sanctions over the past decade. 

The Vatican's UN ambassador to Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, today revealed the figures during a second day of grilling by a UN committee monitoring implementation of the UN treaty against torture.
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