A group of Catholics asked, in a letter addressed this Thursday to the Portuguese Episcopal Conference (CEP), that, within a period of up to 60 days, remove from office bishops who have proven to cover up crimes of sexual abuse of minors in the Church. Within the same two-month period, the signatories ask that all abusers who are currently at work be suspended on a preventive basis, “whenever there is minimally credible evidence of abuse”.
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