UK Report Calls for Police Checks on Catholic Clergy to Stem Sexual Abuse of Children in Parishes
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, April 17, 2001: A report commissioned last year by the Roman Catholic Church and headed by Lord Nolan, a former appeals judge, said clergy, staff and volunteers at Catholic institutions should be subject to police checks to stamp out sexual abuse of children, and that the church must also not hush up allegations of abuse.…