Sexual abuse of nuns: one of the Catholic Church's last taboos

"In the past, the nuns suffered a lot and couldn't talk about it to anyone; it was like a secret," Sister Cristina Schorck told AFP, walking through St Peter's Square with her parents. The 41-year-old Brazilian, who works with the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Rome, said Pope Francis, who died last month, opened "a first door" for women to speak out. After an unprecedented summit at the Vatican on clerical sexual violence in 2019, a series of measures were taken, including lifting the...