In Rome, Pope Francis has ordered to set-up a tribunal to hear sexual abuse cases among Pedophile priests and bishops who are tolerating the act.
BBC reports that the Palace of the Holy Office in Vatican is establishing an office for the new "Judicial Section" for clerical sexual abuse that the Pope has created.
The newly-formed panel aims "to judge bishops with regard to crimes of the abuse of office when connected to the abuse of minors," and will be under the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, as written in the Vatican statement.
This move was recommended by UK's National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) founder, Peter Saunders, who is also a member of the commission on sex abuse, formed by the Pope himself in 2013. This panel is consisted of 17 members of clerics and lay people worldwide.
Saunders, who was sexually abused by a priest in his teenage years, told the Independent that "it might start off as a light tap, but actually the whole idea about hitting children is about inflicting pain."
Just last week, an American priest in the St. Paul, Minnesota archdiocese was charged with six counts of sexual abuse.
"Priests abuse children, and so do bishops," Terence McKiernan, president of the BishopAccountability.org told CNN. "Bishops who offend are inevitable enablers, and the commission's plan must confront that sad fact."
Among the cases of sexual abuse in clergies over the years include a German priest, Andreas L, who has admitted in 2012 that he is guilty of 280 counts of the act; American priests, Paul Shanley and John Geoghan, who caused "public outrage" in the 1990s; and Belgian bishop Roger Vangheluwe, who resigned in April 2010 after found guilty of sexually abusing a young boy for years.
The Catholic Church in Italy has also reported about 100 cases of sexual abuse by pedophile priests in 2010 for over a decade.
The UK news agency added that this adulterous crime is also rampant in Catholic schools and orphanages in Ireland.
