The French Bishops' Conference have unveiled a new celebret, a kind of identity card for priests, to intensify the fight against sexual abuse in the Church.
The new scheme follows on from a two-and-a-half investigation which yielded a 2,500 page report detailing 70 years of sexual abuse within the church and estimating some 330,000 victims.
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