Tag: clergy sex abuse
Report: Philadelphia Archdiocese has paid $78.5 of $81 million awarded to...
PHILADELPHIA -- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has paid close to $78.5 million of a total of more than $81 million awarded to 438 victims...
Pope Francis asks safeguarding commission to protect minors with report ‘of...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis asked his safeguarding commission to provide an annual audit of what the church is doing to protect minors and...
German law firm incriminates retired Pope Benedict XVI in handling of...
MUNICH — A law firm’s report on how abuse cases were handled in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising incriminated retired Pope Benedict XVI,...
Pope Francis urges repentance ‘in the awareness of this appalling reality’...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis prayed for the tens of thousands of victims of clerical sexual abuse in France and urged the Catholic Church...
UPDATE: Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick pleads not guilty in Massachusetts...
WASHINGTON -- Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick pleaded not guilty Sept. 3 in a Massachusetts court, where he is facing three counts of sexually...
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn cleared by Vatican of alleged sexual...
NEW YORK -- The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has determined that allegations of sexual abuse of a minor against Bishop...
Pope Francis refuses to accept resignation of Cardinal Reinhard Marx: ‘We...
VATICAN CITY -- Agreeing with German Cardinal Reinhard Marx that Catholic leaders cannot adopt an "ostrich policy" in the face of the clerical sexual...
Wisconsin Department of Justice will investigate cases of abuse by clergy...
MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Department of Justice is opening a statewide investigation of abuse by clergy and faith leaders within the state's five...
The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago laid groundwork for addressing...
WASHINGTON -- When Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago developed a comprehensive plan over a two-year period, in 1991 and 1992, to address clerical...
USCCB committee with National Review Board: Church must build culture of...
WASHINGTON -- Members of the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People have agreed with the National Review Board's call...