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DUBLIN — The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland was covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests as recently as 2009, and the Vatican tacitly encouraged the coverup by ignoring the guidelines, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Irish government.
In Germany on Wednesday, the country’s Roman Catholic bishops took new steps to bring previously unreported abuse to light. The German bishops said they would allow outside investigators to look for abuse cases in diocesan personnel records dating back in some cases to 1945.
