Vatican to be Grilled on Sex Abuse

Vatican officials are expected to face tough questions from the UN on the sexual abuse of thousands of children by Catholic clergy.

Members of the Holy See - the city state's diplomatic entity - will be grilled by a UN committee in Geneva.

The Catholic Church has faced a raft of allegations of child sex abuse by priests around the world and criticism over inadequate responses by bishops.

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Well, for an organization which claims to have the moral high-ground over non-believers, the fact that this had to come to this is quite embarrassing.