My Way News - Vatican: 1997 Irish abuse letter 'misunderstood'
My Way News reports: "In a new round of damage control, the Vatican insisted Wednesday that a 1997 letter warning Irish bishops against reporting priests suspected of sex abuse to police had been 'deeply misunderstood.' [...] And victims groups say it's a 'smoking gun' that shows that the church enforced a worldwide culture of concealing crimes by pedophile priests of which Rome bears ultimate - and legal - responsibility."