ROME — Catholic groups and abuse survivors on Tuesday called on the Roman Catholic Church in Italy, which has yet to reckon with the scourge of sexual abuse by priests, to create an independent commission to investigate how the crisis has been handled. In a number of countries — including Australia, France, Ireland and the […]
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Vatican under pressure to show it is serious about dealing with crisis at Rome meeting More than 100 senior Roman Catholic bishops from around the world will gather in Rome this week for a summit Pope Francis has called to address clerical sexual abuse – the most serious crisis in the church since the Reformation, according to […]
Read MoreUnofficial estimates say country may have highest number of victims of paedophile priests in world Pressure is mounting on the Catholic church in Italy to face a reckoning on child sexual abuse amid unofficial estimates that the country could have the highest number of victims of paedophile priests in the world. Damning investigations into the scale of […]
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An extraordinary summit on the issue of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church opens at the Vatican on Thursday, with survivors calling for zero tolerance. Bishops from around the world have gathered for the four-day conference, along with Vatican officials, experts and heads of male and female religious orders. The theme of the meeting […]
Read MorePope Francis has publically expressed ‘pain and shame’ over the rape and molestation of children by priests in Chile. His remarks came during his visit to the Latin American country which has been gripped by a scandal scarring the credibility of the Church. The pontif also had a private meeting with some of the victims […]
Read MoreHundreds of children have been sexually abused since 1975 in the Catholic diocese of Cologne, according to a long-awaited report which showed, in dozens of the cases, high ranking officials neglected their duties. The 800-page report found 314 children, mostly boys under the age of 14, were sexually abused between 1975 and 2018 by 202 […]
Read MoreNuns sold orphaned children to priests, businessmen to serve as sex slaves, new confidential report reveals COLOGNE, Germany Germany’s Catholic Church covered up the sexual abuse of orphaned children for decades, a new confidential report has revealed. Nuns in the western city of Speyer sold orphaned children to priests and businessmen to serve as sex […]
Read MoreGermany’s Catholic Church has been rocked by a string of reports in recent years exposing widespread abuse of children by clergymen, with the newest investigation placing ex-Pope Benedict XVI, the archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982, in the spotlight. Berlin: A potentially explosive report into the handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic […]
Read MoreMELBOURNE, Australia — The leader of Hillsong, the Australian megachurch that has attracted throngs of young people and celebrities worldwide, has stepped down as he prepares to fight a criminal charge of concealing historical child sexual abuse by his father. The church’s leader, Brian Houston, said in a statement published on Hillsong’s website on Sunday that he […]
Read More(CNN) — A former Catholic bishop in Norway has admitted sexually abusing a minor 20 years ago, a spokesman for the Norwegian Catholic Church said Wednesday. Bishop Georg Mueller admitted to having sexually abused an altar boy but said there were no other victims, said church spokesman Andreas Dingstad. Mueller, 58, became a priest in 1978 […]
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