VATICAN CITY: A senior official in the Vatican's advisory commission on clerical sexual abuse admitted on Friday that the Catholic Church was failing to tackle the scourge in the southern hemisphere.

There was a "disparity in training and prevention of child sexual abuse between the northern and southern hemispheres," warned Andrew Small, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

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