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WARSAW: John Paul II “knew” about cases of child abuse by Catholic priests in Poland and helped cover them up before becoming pope in 1978, a new book claims. Dutch journalist Ekke Overbeek spent more than a decade combing through archives and interviewing victims and witnesses for “Maxima Culpa”, which has sparked an outcry in the pope’s native Poland. “I …

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