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Pope Francis travels to Belgium this week as the once-staunchly Catholic country confronts its appalling legacy of clergy sex abuse and institutional cover-up.
Abuse survivors have penned an open letter to Francis , asking him to launch a universal system of church reparations.
Belgium 's parliament has announced a follow-on investigation into the church’s sex crimes.
A parliamentary inquiry into Operation Chalice , the much-touted police raids on priest's residence and other church offices in 2010 .
Hundreds of boxes of documents that police seized were ordered returned to the church in 2014 .
Victims' lawyers denounce what they call a “hallucinatory sequence of irregularities and illegalities (that) has decapitated the investigation and deprived survivors of clerical sexual abuse of their fundamental right to a fair trial.
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