By Michael Sainsbury – The Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania have become the latest in the country to pass legislation criminalising priests who fail to report the abuse of children disclosed during confession....
Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sexual abuse offences, has lodged an application with Australia’s High Court to appeal his guilty verdict. The application to the country’s...
Abuse / Church / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published September 17, 2019 · Last modified September 16, 2019
Gail Ramplen, Benoni – I am very disappointed that many are quick to accept Cardinal George Pell’s guilt following his conviction in Australia for sexual abuse and ever ready to join those who therefore...
By Michael Sainsbury – The Australian Catholic Church could face tens of millions dollars in compensation claims after the Diocese of Ballarat in Victoria state admitted, for the first time, it knew of the behavior...
By Christopher Gunty – Vatican officials needed “a safeguarding policy” in place ages ago to prevent abuse and address it when it occurred, said Marie Collins, a clergy sexual abuse survivor from Ireland. The promise...
A yearlong investigation by Seton Hall University confirmed that Theodore McCarrick, the laicised cardinal who had been archbishop of Newark from 1986 to 2000, had sexually harassed seminarians during his tenure as head of...
By Mark Pattison – Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington who was laicised in February following a Vatican trial on sexual abuse charges levelled against him, continued to deny he had...
Abuse / Church / Erin Carelse / Ethics & Human Dignity / Parish Life
by Erin Carelse · Published July 18, 2019 · Last modified July 15, 2019
A workshop on healing memories produced tangible results, according to participants. They spoke after attending a Durban archdiocese Justice & Peace (J&P) “Healing of Memories” weekend workshop for some 15 mothers and daughters at Mariannhill’s...
Abuse / Church / Education / Education 2019
by CNS · Published June 25, 2019 · Last modified June 24, 2019
Easy access to pornography on the Internet is distorting young people’s views of sex, which can even lead to rape, as Eleanor Kennelly Gaetan reports. The Internet facilitates sexual exploitation, a category of child...
By Michael Sainsbury – Should an appeals court uphold his conviction for child sexual abuse, Australian Cardinal George Pell appears to have come to terms that his spectacular fall from grace could be complete...
By Dennis Sadowski – Teresa Pitt Green and Luis Torres Jr. aren’t afraid to say they were sexually abused by priests. They want the church to know it especially, and wider society as well. They...
Much of the reporting surrounding Pope Francis’ “motu proprio,” on the pope’s own initiative, titled “Vos estis lux mundi” (“You are the light of the world”), has presented it as the final response to...
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