Abuse cover-ups bigger than abuse - CEI

(ANSA) - Rome, September 24 - It is a bigger scandal to cover up sex abuse cases than to perpetrate abuse itself, the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) said Monday.
    "The biggest scandal is to cover up the truth," CEI President Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti told TV200 in an interview.
    Speaking on the eve of a CEI meeting starting Monday on clerical paedophilia, Bassetti said "there have always been scandals in the Church and today they have become manifest through media that once were not so efficient in their crudeness.
    "Terrible things have happened, and we express our condemnation of them just as the Lord would express His".