Category: Child Sexual Abuse

A series of abuse scandals, often involving children, have rocked the Catholic Church in recent decades. Published On 5 Oct 20215 Oct 2021 The Catholic Church has been repeatedly rocked by child sexual abuse scandals over the last three decades. An independent inquiry on Tuesday said it had concluded there were about 216,000 victims of sexual abuse […]

After Two Decades, Abuse Crisis Has Humbled the Catholic Church https://www.wsj.com/video/clergy-abuse-victims-agonizing-choice-take-settlement-or-risk-lawsuit/530D1290-5BEE-459E-8589-19B2A31EB8F7.html ROME—From when the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse crisis erupted in 2002 until his death more than three years later, St. John Paul II never met with a victim of clerical sexual abuse. Source: After Two Decades, Abuse Crisis Has Humbled the Catholic Church – WSJ

Ex-pontiff blames editorial ‘oversight’ for previous statement he was absent from 1980 meeting over suspected paedophile priest The former pope Benedict XVI has admitted providing false information to a German inquiry into clerical sexual abuse. Benedict, who resigned as the global leader of the Roman Catholic church in 2013, said on Monday that he had […]

Leader of church in England and Wales refusing to resign despite damning IICSA report Pope Francis asked Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales, to stay in his post, despite a damning report that criticised his leadership and concluded that the church repeatedly prioritised its reputation over the welfare […]