ROME — As new details emerged on allegations of child sexual abuse by priests in the Munich archdiocese then led by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican spoke out on Saturday to protect the pope against what it called an aggressive campaign against him in his native Germany. At the same time, a high-ranking Vatican official overseeing internal investigations acknowledged that 3,000 cases of suspected abuse of minors had come to its attention in the past decade, of which 20 percent had been...
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