After Years Of Abuse By Priests, #NunsToo Are Speaking Out
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 […]
Poland’s Catholic Church: 382 priests abused 625 minors
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 […]
Poland’s Catholic Church: 382 priests abused 625 minors
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 […]
More U.S. Catholics are considering leaving the church over the sex abuse crisis, poll says
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 […]
Cardinals Blame Catholic Church’s Rampant Child Sex Abuse On ‘The Homosexual Agenda’
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 […]
Journalists Who Reported On A Cardinal’s Sex Abuse Verdict Could Face Jail Time
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 […]
Explainer: What does Cardinal Pell’s conviction mean for the Catholic Church?
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: […]
Analysis: Pope’s sex abuse summit: What it did and didn’t do
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, […]
George Pell: Why was conviction kept secret?
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 […]
At Vatican summit, talk of destroyed files riles bishops’ critics
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 […]
Vatican’s legal procedures for handling sex abuse, explained
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 […]
The Catholic Church’s Battle Between Rhetoric and Reality
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 […]
Southern Baptist president says database of abusers possible
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 […]
Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick for sex abuse
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 […]
Cardinal expects ‘significant progress’ at sex abuse summit
Source: Associated Press By JEFF KAROUB and NICOLE WINFIELD DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. archbishop helping to organize next week’s summit of the world’s bishops at the Vatican on sexual […]
‘It Will Cause a Scandal.’ The Pope and a Trusted U.S. Cardinal Clash Over Sex-Abuse Crisis
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY—Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, chief adviser to Pope Francis on protecting children from sexual abuse, called a meeting with […]
Why Does the Catholic Church Keep Failing on Sexual Abuse?
Source: The Atlantic A few years after seán o’malley took over the Archdiocese of Boston in 2003, at the peak of the clergy sexual-abuse crisis in America, he led novenas of […]
Why the pope’s upcoming summit needs to do a full accounting of the cover-up of sexual abuse
Source: The Conversation By Timothy D. Lytton; Distinguished University Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University Pope Francis is gathering 200 bishops and heads of religious orders from around the […]
Mexican Church suspended 152 priests across 9 years for alleged abuse: bishop
Source: Reuters BY Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 152 Catholic priests in Mexico have been suspended in the past nine years for sexual abuse against minors, Mexico’s […]
Top Vatican Official Resigns After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment
Source: Huffington Post By Carla Herreria VOICES OF FAITH Former nun Doris Wagner has spoken publicly about the harassment and abuse she says she faced in the Roman Catholic Church. […]