French bishops set up national church court recommended by abuse report
By CNS – France’s Catholic bishops have set up what they believe to be the world’s first major national church court, replacing a previous network of local...
By CNS – France’s Catholic bishops have set up what they believe to be the world’s first major national church court, replacing a previous network of local...
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Slovenian Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, whose mosaics decorate chapels in the Vatican, all over Europe, in the United States and Australia, has...
By François Gloutnay, CNS – The Grey Nuns of Montreal are asking a Canadian court that the Congregation of Holy Cross compensate them should they be required...
By Sarah MacDonald, CNS – Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin has lashed out at the “pathetic responses” to victims of clergy sexual abuse and the “whitewashing” of...
By Valentine Iwenwanne, CNS – Nigerian sisters and their communities are raising awareness about violence against women and child abuse and teaching their prevention mechanisms among young...
By CNS – The retired archbishop of Strasbourg, France, admitted making “inappropriate gestures” to an adult woman when he was a Franciscan priest in the 1980s. Archbishop...
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – The Vatican has decided to open an investigation into French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, the retired archbishop of Bordeaux, who admitted in a...
By CNS – French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, former head of the French bishops’ conference, admitted to abusing a 14-year-old girl 35 years ago. The revelation came in...
By Sarah Mac Donald, CNS – One of the church’s leading experts on safeguarding and clerical sexual abuse has said the exclusion of women from seminary formation...
By Simon Caldwell, CNS — The Catholic Church renewed its apology to child sex abuse victims of following the publication of a report that claimed sexual offences...
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