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Pope Francis on Friday disclosed that changes to an advisory body on preventing sexual abuse represented a wonderful fresh start in the fight against paedophile priests. He however conceded that ‘much remains to be done’.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the pope had in March moved the Commission for the Protection of Minors into the Vatican’s doctrine office which is believed to be very powerful, which oversees the church’s investigations of abuse cases, in a bid to allow it the institutional power critics said it was lacking.

Speaking on Friday, he said’; ‘the reform ‘marks a new beginning’, …