Expel priests who abuse, bishops who cover up-victims

(ANSA) - Vatican City, February 18 - Catholic Church sex abuse victims spokesman Peter Isley said ahead of a four-day Vatican summit starting Thursday that the Church should implement a zero tolerance policy on priestly sex abusers and bishops who cover up for them.
    "We ask that zero tolerance be put into practise," said Isley, who with another former victim, Peter Saunders, has become one of the two main voices of the victims ahead of the much-anticipated summit.
    "Every guilty priest must be defrocked and also the bishops who have covered up must be expelled from the Church," he said.
    He said the victims also had another key request: that it should be made compulsory for bishops to report abuse cases to civil authorities.