High-ranking Catholic Church official Cardinal Reinhard Marx recently admitted that the Catholic Church routinely manipulated or destroyed evidence of clergy sexual abuse.
In a presentation given at the February abuse summit at the Vatican, German Cardinal Marx stated that documents that could have contained proof of the abuse were destroyed or never created.
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