Church’s ‘inaction continues to damage children’: US abuse victim sues Vatican in bid to identify predators

Over recent months, the Catholic church has been gripped by a global sexual abuse scandal – particularly in Australia, Chile and the US – with allegations that cases were covered up by top church officials. “I’m seeking the truth – that’s what this is all about,” 52-year-old Manuel Vega, who said he suffered five years of abuse by southern California parish priest Fidencio Silva-Flores when he was a choir boy, told a press conference in Los Angeles.

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