WARSAW: The leaders of Poland's Catholic Church on Tuesday defended the late John Paul 2nd's sainthood and fast-tracked canonization process in response to a Polish television report alleging that he covered up clergy sex abuses while he was archbishop in the country.

The Polish Church figures also said that a commission of experts in various fields — lawyers, doctors, psychologists and historians — would be formed soon to investigate cases of past abuse of minors by the clergy.

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