By: LAURIE GOODSTEIN, NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and JIM YARDLEY, 02/05/2014
Photo: Anja Niedringhaus/Associated Press
In a hard-hitting report applauded by victims as a landmark in the Roman Catholic Church’s clerical sexual-abuse scandal, a United Nations committee on Wednesday called on the Vatican to remove all child abusers from its ranks, report them to law enforcement and open the church’s archives so that bishops and other officials who concealed crimes could be held accountable.