Tag: Clergy sexual abuse
New settlements bring Chicago archdiocese abuse payouts above $400 million
CHICAGO -- The Archdiocese of Chicago said it has paid out more than $400 million to abuse survivors, with the announcement coming on the...
‘Truth Heals’ highlights good communication, offers Catholic leaders a framework for...
ROME -- A newly released book is urging the Catholic Church to rethink how it communicates during clergy sexual abuse crises.
In "Truth Heals: Clergy...
Settling ‘the moral debt’: Abuse victims in Spain optimistic about reparations...
Victims of abuse are cautiously optimistic regarding an agreement between the Catholic Church and the Spanish government that would seek to provide reparations to...
Pope Leo encourages the work of exposing abuses and to be...
Clergy sexual abuse has mutilated the church. It has scourged Christ's body. Like a rock dropped in the water, the ripples stretch out far,...
U.S. Catholic bishops annual report shows abuse allegations and costs down,...
The U.S. Catholic bishops' latest annual report on child and youth protection shows abuse allegations continue to decline -- but authors warned of the...
Missouri dioceses — accused of alleged sexual abuse by priests and...
Two federal civil lawsuits, each seeking $75 million, accuse the Missouri dioceses of Springfield-Cape Girardeau and Jefferson City of covering up clergy sexual abuse...
Pope Francis accepts resignation of Polish Archbishop Andrzej Dziega, known for ignoring victims of sexual...
The announcement that Pope Francis had accepted the resignation of Archbishop Andrzej Dziega of Szczecin-Kamien with no explanation in a Feb. 24 statement from the apostolic nunciature caused a...
Vatican investigation ends with findings that Archbishop John C. Nienstedt acted...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A multiyear investigation overseen by the Catholic Church into Archbishop John C. Nienstedt, who resigned from the Archdiocese of St....
Pope Francis acknowledges ‘serious problem’ of migration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis called the migration crisis between Mexico and the United States a "serious problem" and praised a U.S. bishop working...
Ohio priest Father Michael Zacharias awaiting sentencing for five charges of...
TOLEDO, Ohio -- A federal jury May 12 convicted a Toledo diocesan priest of five charges of sex trafficking in his abuse of three...