The Vatican’s problematic process to address clergy sex abuse …
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · Over four days, these bishops heard harrowing tales of trauma from victims, learned how to investigate and sanction pedophile priests, and were warned that they too would face punishment if they...
Expanding clergy sexual abuse probe targets New Orleans Catholic church …
WEB3 days ago · Updated 9:51 AM PDT, May 1, 2024. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and failing to report their crimes to law enforcement. Louisiana State Police …
What the Latest Investigations Into Catholic Church Sex Abuse Mean
WEBJune 2, 2023. The nearly 900-page report landed like a grenade when Josh Shapiro, then the attorney general of Pennsylvania, delivered it on a stage in Harrisburg, Pa., five years ago. It detailed...
The Catholic Church sex abuse crisis: 4 essential reads
WEBOct 7, 2021 · The Vatican has known about priestly pedophilia for many decades. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini. 1. Years of scandal. High-profile reports have consistently put the crisis in headlines for the past...
The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now | Origins
WEBWhile some have attributed the abuses to problems in contemporary society, this month historian Wietse de Boer takes a much deeper look. He argues that the way the Church has responded to these outrages has its roots 500 years ago when the Catholic Church faced its first major crisis of sexual abuse.
The Catholic Church’s grim history of ignoring priestly pedophilia ...
WEBOct 9, 2018 · Doubling down on secrecy. The Vatican has known about priestly pedophilia for many decades. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini. While the problem of priestly pedophilia might be centuries old, the...
The Catholic priest child sex abuse crisis, explained - Vox
WEBSep 4, 2018 · And while efforts taken by the Catholic Church in recent years have significantly reduced abuse since 2002, the fundamental problem remains: There is little to no centralized effort to...
Pope Widens Church Law to Target Sexual Abuse of Adults by Priests …
WEBPublished June 1, 2021 Updated July 29, 2021. ROME — Pope Francis has broadened the Roman Catholic Church’s definition of sexual abuse by revising its penal code to explicitly acknowledge that...
WEBFindings of the John Jay Studies on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the US. Updated data on what is now known about abuse in the Catholic Church. Recommendations from studies, commissions and reports about reducing and responding to sexual abuse of minors.
The global scale of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
WEB5 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...
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