Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican is working on a papal document that would establish procedures for Catholics to report bishops suspected of sexual abuse or […]
Source: The New York Times By Makiko Inoue and Mike Ives TOKYO — Catholic bishops in Japan plan to conduct a nationwide survey on sexual abuse of children by members of the […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has issued sweeping new sex abuse legislation for the Vatican City State and Vatican diplomats that requires the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein March 27 The Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis is caused by a too-fawning deference to clerics called “clericalism.” Or a failure to guard against […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer March 21 As the Catholic Church quakes through one sexual abuse scandal after another, Pope Francis recently announced a policy he wants to implement […]
Source: The Washington Post By Editorial Board March 19 THE ALL-BUT-IMPREGNABLE wall of power and influence that for decades blocked victims of child sex abuse from seeking justice and compensation from […]
Source: NPR BY SYLVIA POGGIOLI In February, Pope Francis acknowledged a longstanding dirty secret in the Roman Catholic Church — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests. It’s an issue […]
Source: Associated Press By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA 1 of 3 Archbishop Wojciech Polak, right, the Roman Catholic primate of Poland, addresses the media during a news conference at the episcopate building […]
Source: Associated Press By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA 1 of 3 Archbishop Wojciech Polak, right, the Roman Catholic primate of Poland, addresses the media during a news conference at the episcopate building […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey The percent of U.S. Catholics who say the clergy sex abuse crisis has them questioning whether to leave the faith has […]
Source: Huffington Post By Alanna Vagianos Two cardinals said that the rampant sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is due to the “plague of the homosexual agenda” spreading through the denomination. “We turn to […]
Source: NPR BY Sasha Ingber Dozens of journalists and media outlets that reported on the sex abuse conviction of the world’s most high-ranking Catholic cleric ever charged with such crimes […]
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Cardinal George Pell has become the highest ranking Roman Catholic prelate to be convicted on charges of sexual abuse. FILE PHOTO: […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis’ summit on preventing sexual abuse was never going to meet the expectations placed on it by victims groups, […]
Source: BBC News They were sex abuse allegations that rocked the Catholic Church and generated enormous interest – only for the case to vanish suddenly from public view for nine […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Jack Jenkinsjackmjenkins VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On a day packed with emotion and unusually direct criticism of the Catholic Church hierarchy, victims of church abuse […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — For centuries, the Vatican’s canon law system busied itself with banning books and dispensing punishments that included burnings at the […]
Source: The Atlantic BY RACHEL DONADIO ROME—Pope Francis opened a highly anticipated meeting about the sexual-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church with remarks that were strong, brief, and to the point. “The […]
Source: Associated Press By TRAVIS LOLLER ASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than a decade after the Southern Baptist Convention rejected the idea of creating a database of ministers credibly accused […]
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO, NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS VATICAN CITY (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and […]
