Sex abuse cost Church $2 billion
'Financial losses hurt mission' study finds
Sunday, 12 February 2012
08 February, 19:16
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(ANSA) - Rome, February 8 - Sexual abuse claims have cost the Catholic Church roughly $2 billion, according to a report Wednesday.
"Financial losses are affecting the current mission of the Church," said the report by Americans Michael Bemi, president of the National Catholic Risk Retention Group, and Patricia Neal, child protection consultant from Oklahoma.
They presented their findings at the international symposium Healing and Renewal, meant to address the Church sex-abuse scandal.
The four-day event, which opened Monday at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, hosted 110 delegates from various bishops' conferences around the world, medical professionals and the Father Superiors of 30 religious orders.
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