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Cardinal admits Church files on paedophile priests destroyed

Pope Francis waves from his Papamobile after the Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 25, 2018. [Photo, Reuters]

A top Catholic cardinal admitted Saturday that Church files on priests who sexually abused children were destroyed or never even drawn up, a move which allowed paedophiles to prey on others.

"Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created," German Cardinal Reinhard Marx told a landmark Vatican summit on tackling paedophilia in the clergy.

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